[68]: Jean Paul reminds us in the Preface to "Quintus Fixlein" that "Flying Dogs" is a name for Vampyres.—Tr.
[69]: John David Michaelis (knighted by the King of Sweden) planned, in 1756, a journey to the East, in the cause of biblical and philological science, for which he prepared a series of questions.—Tr.
[70]: From the iron-forges and colliers' huts.
[71]: See Apocrypha: Tobit viii. 8.
[72]: It was when he spoke with his father in the arbor in behalf of Clotilda's union with Flamin,—and when he proposed to himself, before the event, to renounce even her friendship.
[73]: Frascati was a summer residence of the Roman Emperors in the Campagna, on the Tusculan Mount, eight miles from Rome.—Tr.
[74]: Architectural term.—Tr.
[75]: Real-schule: practical school, for the learning of things. "Res, non verba, quæso," was Spurzheim's motto.—Tr.
[76]: This Institute is of course out of Jean Paul's brain; the others are historical. The one at Schnepfenthal (in Thüringen) was founded by Salzman, who died in 1811.—Tr.
[77]: Septleva (Sept-le-va) is an old French term applied to the case in the game of faro where the player gains seven times the number he laid down.—Tr.