[156]: The seas of our earth look in the distance like the spots of the moon.
[157]: The halo round the moon.
[158]: The Upas-tree.—Tr.
[159]: Balloon (inventor of the).—Tr.
[160]: Depreciation (of money).—Tr.
[161]: Allusions to cloud filled with pictured lands and islands which one sees at morning on looking down from Mount Ætna.
[162]: A term taken from wine-making, meaning the unpressed wine, the first runnings.—Tr.
[163]: Chamberlains wear, as a decoration, three gold buttons over the right pocket-lappet.—Tr.
[164]: Preciste in the original: one nominated to a benefice in virtue of the right of first petition.—Tr.
[165]: Original: "Gotzsurthel,"—properly Gottesurtheil.—Tr.