Footnotes
[1.]See notes to D'Oyly and Mant's Bible. The differences, it is supposed, may have consisted in a different mode of pronouncing the same words, such as exists in various English counties, to a sufficient extent to make the speakers mutually unintelligible! See, also, Eichhorn's view.[2.]Lyell's Geology, vol. i. p. 230.[3.]Consolations in Travel.[4.]Discourse on the Origin and Families of Nations.[5.]Mithridates, vol. i.[6.]Asia, by Carl Ritter and others.[7.]Genesis, c. iii. v. 7, “And they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”[8.]Adelung quotes Zimmerman to the effect that of the animals found in Europe all have been derived from Asia, with the exception of sixteen or seventeen kinds, and these are mostly Mice and Bats.[9.]“A Tree well known in India, called the Tschiampa. It fruit is like an Apple, and it is said to bear both good and evil fruit!”[10.]Bohlen (Prof. Theol. zu Königsberg) auf Genesis.[11.]Morier.[12.]“Unexplored” with reference to the Semetic nations.[13.]“I” (with “Other” added) means “We.”[14.]Prichard on Man.[15.]Lyell on Geology.[16.]See also the Rev. T. Price on the Physiology and Physiognomy of the British Isles.[17.]The Greek, Russian, and German, have all been shown to belong to what are called the Indo-European class of languages. The Finnish, Vater states to be in its roots identical with the German.[18.]See Dugald Stewart, on the Active and Moral Faculties.[19.]In connexion with this subject I may refer to an article distinguished by great genius and profound philosophical reasoning, which lately appeared in Chambers's Journal, under the title of “Thoughts on Nations and Civilization.” (See Number for May 21st, 1842.)[20.]This sept were also generally termed the “gentlemanly” Mandans. The recent destruction of this warm-hearted tribe by the smallpox is one of the most heart-rending tragedies in history![21.]Bell's Geography.[22.]The African names for “The Nose” do not occur in Appendix A, but they are noticed elsewhere in this work. The names for “The Eye” are explained among words for “The Sun,” &c. of which they are generally derivatives.[23.]The terms for the Domestic Relations are in some instances compound words—in others they seem to be identical with the Names of the Human Race.[24.]Probably the terms were not in all cases appropriated in the first instance to the Hand exclusively, but applied alike to all the perceptive organs.[25.]Klaproth's Asia Polyglotta.[26.]Eiere (“Day,” Zend,) is obviously connected with Huere (“The Sun,” Zend.)[27.]Klaproth's Asia Polyglotta, p. 36.[28.]Parkhurst's Hebrew Lexicon.[29.]Bohemia is inhabited by a Sclavonic race, &c.[30.]This comparison has been extracted from the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine, vol. II., p. 183, in which it was originally published by the author of this work.[31.]History of the English language, prefixed to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary.[32.]Rask's Anglo-Saxon Grammar, by Thorpe. Preface, p. xlvii.[33.]Mr. Lockhart has given an interesting account of the origin of Sir Walter Scott's views on this subject as expressed in the passages quoted above. They were first suggested by a friend whose attention had been much directed to subjects of this nature.[34.]This inflection, as in “They Hav-en,” is also preserved in the Dialects of the English Provinces.[35.]
Giv-eth (Eng.)
Gieb-et (Germ.)
Don-at (Lat.)
Can-ati (Sans.) i.e. Can-it (Lat.)
Diy-ati (Sans.) i.e. Die-th (Eng.)
For example: “Carbonic Acid Gas,” called also “Choke Damp” (by miners,) and “Fixed Air.”
“Carburetted Hydrogen,” called also “Fire Damp” (by miners), “Inflammable Air,” “Coal Gas,” and “Gas.”
“Iodine,” from Iōdēs, “Like a Violet,” (Greek,) a name suggested by its beautiful violet tint.
“Nitrous Oxide,” or “Protoxide of Azote” (terms expressive of its component elements), a gas discovered by Dr. Priestley, called also “Laughing Gas” (from its peculiar property discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy).
“Gas” is from a German word meaning “Breath, Air, Spirit,” &c. &c.