Inadequate Description Finish:Single The end of the American

The end of the American Civil War is pictured in this cartoon with Colonel North offering the cup of friendship and unity to Colonel South

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'Traffic in Whitehall

Walham Green

Sir Abraham Hume was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1775

Inadequate Description Finish:Single The end of the American'Inadequate Description', 1906. Dougal (to shooting tenant, who has brought out a dog recently purchased at auction, and is now trying to whistle it back from the hill opposite): Hoo was't they describit him in the catalogue, did ye say?. Tenant: It only said, 'From Stranraer'. Dougal: They might ha' said, 'To and from Stranraer!'. Illustration from Punch, or The London Charivari, (15 August 1906).