[26]: Pier-glasses.—Tr.
[27]: Household plate.—Tr.
[28]: Probably a ward or school of the city.—Tr.
[29]: The hands of the Medicean Venus are new and restored.
[30]: Chief-Physician.—Tr.
[31]: For Vandyk's Sebastian is said to resemble the painter himself.
[32]: A furnace for destroying galleries of mines, invented by Belidor, a French military mathematician, born in 1697.—Tr.
[33]: "But it is myself I forget in pardoning you."
[34]: According to the common opinion; for I am inclined to the other, which calls them Ator, Sator, Peratoras. These names distinguish the kings wholly from the shepherds, who were called Milati, Acheel, Cyriacus, and Stephanus, and who also preceded them, all which I copy here out of Casaub. Exercit. ad Ann. Baron., II. 10, because I am not at all ashamed to know anything useless, provided a Casaubon is not, and provided it is something learned too.
[35]: The reference is all along to the years 1792-93.