[13] Koch, p. 104; Geijer, i, 129. [↑]
[14] Crichton-Wheaton, ii, 322. [↑]
[15] Ludwig Holberg, Baron Holberg, born at Bergen, Norway, 1684. After a youth of poverty and struggle he settled at Copenhagen in 1718, as professor of metaphysics, and attained the chair of eloquence in 1720. Made Baron by King Frederick V of Denmark at his accession in 1747. D. 1754. [↑]
[16] Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum novam telluris theoriam ac historiam quintæ monarchiæ ... exhibens, etc. Dr. Gosse, in art. Holberg, Encyc. Brit., makes the mistake of calling the book a poem. It is in Latin prose, with verse passages. [↑]
[17] It was published thrice in Danish, ten times in German, thrice in Swedish, thrice in Dutch, thrice in English, twice in French, twice in Russian, and once in Hungarian. [↑]
[18] Cap. vi, De religione gentis Potuanæ. [↑]
[19] Cp. pp. 75–78, ed. 1754. [↑]
[20] Cap. vi, p. 69; cp. cap. viii, De Academia, p. 101. [↑]