FOOTNOTES:
[1] "Nulla magna civitas diu quiescere potest si foris hostem non habet, domi invenit—ut prævalida corpora ab extremis causis tuta videntur, sed suis ipsa viribas onerantur. Tantum, nimirum, ex publicis malis sentimus, quantum ad res privatas pertmet; nec in eis quicquam aerius, quam pecuniæ damnun, stimulat."—Livy, xxx. 44.
[2] Darwin, Botanic Garden.
[3] "Thirty-five miles below the surface of the earth, the central heat is everywhere so great, that granite itself is held in fusion."—Humboldt, Cosmos, i. 273.
[4] Lucan, i. 1-6.
[5] Macaulay's History of England, vol. ii. p. 669.
[6] Louis Blanc, Histoire de Dix Ans de Louis Philippe, iii. 321, et seq.
[7] Macaulay's History, i. 1-2.
[8] Observe, for a time! We shall see anon what the price of sugar will be when the English colonies are destroyed and the slave plantations have the monopoly of the market in their hands.
[9] "Cromwell supplied the void made by his conquering sword, by pouring in numerous colonies of the Anglo-Saxon blood and of the Calvinistic faith. Strange to say, under that iron rule the conquered country began to wear an outward face of prosperity. Districts, which had recently been as wild as those where the first white settlers of Connecticut were contending with the Red Men, were in a few years transformed into the likeness of Kent and Norfolk. New buildings, roads, and plantations were everywhere begun. The rent of estates rose fast: and some of the English landowners began to complain that they were met in every market by the products of Ireland, and to clamour for protecting laws."—Macaulay's History, i., 130.
[10] A Campaign in the Kabylie. By Dawson Borrer, F.R.G.S., &c. London, 1848.
La Kabylie. Par un Colon. Paris, 1846.
La Captivité du Trompette Escoffier. Par Ernest Alby. 2 vols. Brussels, 1848.
[11] The Moors smoke the leaves of hemp instead of tobacco. This keef, as it is called, easily intoxicates, and renders the head giddy. Abd-el-Kader forbade the use of it, and if one of his soldiers was caught smoking keef, he received the bastinado. Captivité d'Escoffier, vol. i. p. 221.
[12] "General Lamoricière habitually carries a stick. This has procured him, from the Arabs, the name of the Père-au-bâton, (the father with the stick:) Bour-à-boi. One of his orderly officers, my friend and comrade Captain Bentzman, gives Araouah as the proper orthography of Bour-à-boi. We have followed Escoffier's pronunciation."—Captivité d'Escoffier, vol. i. p. 30.
[13] Cicero's joke on a senator who was the son of a tailor—"Thou hast touched the thing sharply;" (or with a needle—acu.)
[14] Rubruquis, sect. xii.
[15] Expedition zur Entdeckung der Quellen des Weissen Nil, (1840-1841,) von Ferdinand Werne. Mit einem Vorwort von Carl Ritter. Berlin, 1848.
[16] Annals of the Artists of Spain. By William Stirling, M. A. 3 vols. London: Ollivier.
[17] All these portraits were destroyed by fire in the reign of Philip III.
[18] He died the year following.
[19] The Dodo and its Kindred; or, the History, Affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other Extinct Birds of the Islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon. By H. E. Strickland, M.A. F.G.S., F.R.G.S., President of the Ashmolean Society, &c., and A. G. Melville, M.D., Edinburgh, M.R.C. One vol., royal quarto: London, 1848.
[20] The scientific value of these remnants, Mr Strickland informs us, has been lately much increased by skilful dissection. Dr Acland, the lecturer in anatomy, has divided the skin of the cranium down the mesial line, and, by removing it from the left side, the entire osteological structure of this extraordinary skull is exposed to view, while on the other side the external covering remains undisturbed. The solitary foot was formerly covered by decomposed integuments, and presented few external characters. These have been removed by Dr Kidd, the professor of medicine, who has made an interesting preparation of both the osseous and tendinous structures.—See The Dodo and its Kindred, p. 33.
[21] The collection of the Dukes of Schleswig was removed about the year 1720, by Frederic IV., from Gottorf to Copenhagen, where it is now incorporated with the Royal "Kunstkammer" of that northern capital.
[22] In regard to the figures by which it is illustrated, we beg to call attention very specially to Plates VIII. and IX., as the most beautiful examples of the lithographic art, applied to natural history, which we have yet seen executed in this country.
[23] The companions of Vasco de Gama had, at an earlier period, applied the name of Solitaires to certain birds found in an island near the Cape of Good Hope; but these must not be confounded with those of the Didine group above referred to. They were, in fact, penguins, and their wings were somewhat vaguely compared to those of bats, by reason of the peculiar scaly or undeveloped state of the feathers in these birds. Dr Hamel has shown that the term Solitaires, as employed by the Portuguese sailors, was a corruption of sotilicairos, an alleged Hottentot word, of which we do not profess to know the meaning, being rather rusted in that tongue. We know, however, that penguins are particularly gregarious, and, therefore, by no means solitary, although they may be extremely sotilicairious for anything we can say to the contrary.
[24] Memoirs and Adventures of Sir Wm. Kirkaldy of Grange, Knight, &c. &c. Wm. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London.