FOOTNOTES:
[2] Scale.—Tr.
[3] This statue, thirty-five ells high, on a pedestal of twenty-five ells, in whose head twelve men can find room, stands near Arona, and is exactly of a height with Isola Bella, which stands over against it, and which rises on ten gardens or terraces built one upon another.—Keysler's Travels, &c., Vol. I.
[4] The old Kremnitz ducats have the infant Jesus on the right arm; but the new and lighter ones on the left.
[5] Franklin advised the preserving and corking up of vessels from which all the liquor had been drunk, in order thereby to keep the ship afloat.
[6] The horse, in the funeral procession of a prince, that comes last, and is decked out gayly for the successor of the deceased.—Tr.
[7] Gray-league (Grau-bünden), the Swiss Canton of the Grisons.—Tr.
[8] Pictures by Peter Molyn, who, on account of his fine storms, was called only Tempesta.
[9] The Pasquino is notoriously mutilated.—Delia Porta was a great restorer of old statues.
[10] I. e. to be pressed between two wooden cylinders and a metallic one.
[11] This pill consists of Antimonia Regia, and by reason of its hardness may be swallowed over and over again with the same effect each time; only a little wine is sprinkled on it before each repetition of the experiment.
[12] Tirare di primavere, the people call it; and Peter Schoppe translated it grandly enough, Electrical pistol-firing of spring.
[13] Quotation-marks.—Tr.
[14] A good Wouwermann means, in painters' language, a well-executed horse, the sight of which has an influence on the beauty of the future colt.
[15] This name is given to the quantum which is withheld from the associate judges of the Supreme Court when they have not worked enough.
[16] The Ipecacuanha belongs to the Violet species.
[17] Of the order of St. Paul, or memento mori, which died in France in the seventeenth century. The above address is its usual greeting.
[18] The Zahouris in Spain are, as is well known, gifted with the power of discerning corpses, veins of metal, &c. far under the earth.
[19] According to the account of some astronomers, that the sun, when eclipsed, has sometimes shone through an opening of the moon, Ulloa, e. g., assures us that he once witnessed.
[20] In Calabria (1785) a thousand and four earthquakes happened in the space of three fourths of a year.—Münter's Travels, &c.