the third month of our modern year, containing thirty-one days. As in the Roman year, so in the English ecclesiastical calendar, used till 1752, this was the first month, and the legal year commenced on the 25th of March. The Romans called this month Martius, from the god Mars, the reputed father of their nation; and it received the name Hyd Monath, i.e., loud or stormy month, from the Anglo-Saxons. There is an old saying, common to both England and Scotland, which represents March as borrowing three days from April; which are thence called the Borrowing or the Borrowed days. In the "Complaint of Scotland," we find "the boval blasts of the three borrowing days of March had chastened the fragrant fleurise of evry fruit-tree far about the fields." And these borrowing days are described in the glossary as "the three last days of March" to which the following popular rhyme refers:

"March borrowit from Averill Three days, and they were ill;" and then there is another rhyme, which graphically characterizes those three "ill" days in detail,

"The first, it sae be wind and weet, The next, it sae be snow and sleet; The third, it sae be sic a freeze, Sall gar the birds stick to the trees."

Dr Jamieson, in his Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, says, "These days being generally stormy, our forefathers have endeavoured to account for this circumstance, by pretending that March borrowed them from April, that he might extend his power so much longer. Those who are much addicted to superstition will neither borrow nor lend on any of these days."

a market-town in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, is situated on both sides of the Old Nene, 13 miles N.W. of Ely, and 32 miles N. by W. of Cambridge. The town consists of two main but narrow streets, and the houses are low and ill-built. The church is a fine old building of the fourteenth century, and there are also Baptist and Independent places of worship, and national schools. The River Nene, which is here crossed by a bridge, is navigable to the town, and affords it the means of carrying on a considerable trade in corn, hemp, flax, coal, timber, &c. Market-day, Friday. Pop. (1851) 4171.

Moravia, or Morava, a river in the Austrian dominions, giving its name to Moravia, rises on the confines of Bohemia and Glatz. It flows in a southerly direction through Moravia, and receives many considerable streams, such as the Hanna, Taya, Zaya, and Rust, on the right, and the Bezzwa, Mlava, and Bodawa, on the left. It then forms the boundary between Hungary and Austria, and falls into the Danube above Pressburg. The principal towns on its banks are,—Olmutz, Kremsir, and Hradisch. It is navigable for about 50 miles to Goding on the boundary of Moravia. Total length, 180 miles.