FOOTNOTES
[A] Thus referred to by Boswell in his Account of Corsica:—"The Corsicans have no drums, trumpets, fifes, or any instrument of warlike music, except a large Triton shell, pierced in the end, with which they make a sound loud enough to be heard at a great distance.... Its sound is not shrill, but rather flat, like that of a large horn."—Tr.
[B] There is a discrepancy which requires explanation between the sum of these and the population given for 1851. Their total is 50,000 below the other figure.—Tr.
[C] A hectar equals 2 acres, 1 rood, 35 perches English.
[D] Of raw tobacco grown in the island, since manufactured tobacco was mentioned among the exports.—Tr.
[E] German, Eiferartig. The word referred to is probably θυμοειδής, usually translated high-spirited, hot-tempered. See Book II. of the Republic.—Tr.
[F] The hero of Schiller's tragedy of The Robbers.—Tr.
[G] A kilometre is 1093·633 yards.
[H] Usually given along with Seneca's Tragedies; but believed to be of later origin—Tr.
[I] The olive.
[J] It may be worth while to notice a contradiction between this epigram and the preceding, in order that no more insults to Corsica may be fathered on Seneca than he is probably the author of. It is not quite easy to imagine that the writer who, in one epigram, had characterized Corsica as "traversed by fish-abounding streams"—piscosis pervia fluminibus—would in another deny that it afforded a draught of water—non haustus aquæ. Such an expression as piscosis pervia fluminibus guarantees to a considerable extent both quantity and quality of water.—Tr.
"Die Sonne sie bleibet am Himmel nicht stehen,
Es treibt sie durch Meere und Länder zu gehen."
[L] For this unblushing assertion, Livius Geminus had actually received from Caligula a reward of 250,000 denarii.
[M] Sic in the German, but it seems a pseudonym, or a mistake.—Tr.
[N] Green and gold are the Corsican colours.
[O] Miglien—here, as in the other passages where he uses the measurement by miles, the author probably means the old Roman mile of 1000 paces.
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