Our "Newland's Corner" on Merrow Downs is so called from Abraham Newland, whose name is printed on old banknotes as F.May is on new ones, and who owned Postford Mill.

Hence the word "Sham-Abram" for a forged note.
2.

A noted piscatorial editor wishes me to record now I once caught a trout with its own eye--as thus: I was whipping the Tillingbourne, and hooked a fish foul, for it dropped off leaving an eye on the hook.

In my vexation I made a cast again over the same spot where I had thrown, and actually caught that eager wounded fish with its own eye.
3.

When I was a guest of Captain Hamilton at Rozelle, Ayr, he told me that he and all the crew had seen the sea-serpent!--but that his admiral had interdicted all mention of it in the log for fear of ridicule: on which I told him what I had seen of the same sort.