[17]: Small balls invented by him to put into a horse's ear, and act as a spur.—Tr.
[18]: An island of the Malay Archipelago, wooded, volcanic, and spicy.—Tr.
[19]: It is notorious how little I know of mining operations; I therefore thought I had reason to apply to my superiors for a spur which might stimulate me to do something in such a weighty science,—and such a spur is certainly the office of mining-superintendent.
[20]: Except the two emperors Silluck and Athnac, and the four kings Sgolta, Sakeph-Katon, etc., I never had intercourse with any; and that only as upper-class scholar, because we jurists, with the Devil's help, had to learn Hebrew, wherein just the above-mentioned six potentates appear as the names of the accents on words. Perhaps, however, my correspondent means the great, acute, crowned accents of nations. [Sakeph-Katon is the only one the translator has not been able to verify of these interesting names. Kauton is given among the Hebrew accents, but not Sakeph.—Tr.]
[21]: Justus Möser, author of the "Patriotic Fantasies," one of Germany's dearest memories, in many respects a Franklin.—Tr.
[22]: Lane of the mine.—Tr.
[23]: Ass's Post.—Tr.
[24]: Instrument for taking the distance of a star north or south from the equator.—Tr.
[25]: Instrument for reckoning the deviation of the hour-circle from the meridian.—Tr.
[26]: Jean Paul seems to indulge here in an hexameter himself: "Welches sie auch mehr bedarf, als der harmonische Gessner."—Tr.