Note 87 — LETTER XXIII.

Owing to the adoption of the French word pigeon, instead of the English word dove, this sentence loses its point. I did not however venture to astonish my readers by translating Tauben-club, Dove-club, though that would have done more justice to the author’s meaning. In Norfolk and Suffolk, where some very pure English is still preserved among the ‘vulgar,’ dove, or as they call it dow, is still the common appellative of the whole genus,—as in the cognate language.—Transl.