Fascinating.  There's a Latin passage on the page labeled Rover that comes
from Ovid Metamophoses, book 3 - referring to the dragon slain by Cadmus in
Ovid's story:

quique halitus
exit ore niger Stygio,
vitiatas inficit auras

"A black breath, as if from the mouth of the Styx, fouls the tainted air."


Jon Kukla
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On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Helms, Bari (LVA) <
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> Never judge a book by its cover. The records of Saint Peter's Episcopal
> Church of New Kent County hold more than the usual wealth of
> genealogical and historical information of colonial Virginia. Covering
> the pages of the church's registry books are sketches and drawings left
> long ago by an unidentified artist. See this week's entry in Out of the
> Box blog for more.
>
> http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2011/09/07/maybe-we-c
> an-learn-from-doodles/
>
> Bari Helms
> Local Records Archivist
> Library of Virginia: Archive of the Commonwealth
> 800 East Broad Street
> Richmond, Virginia 23219
> 804-692-3639
>
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