[176]: This poison-tree stands in a bald waste, because it kills everything around it; and the malefactor journeys alone to its poison, but he seldom returns. [This has been ascertained to be fabulous. There is a poisonous valley encircled by banks emitting a fatal carbonic-acid gas, but no tree grows there, and the upas grows in the woods among other trees without harming them.—Tr.]
[177]: Lind in Kussewitz.
[178]: Around numbers of chapels (see Schlötzer's Correspondence, Part III. Vol. XVIII. 45) stand warehouses of wax limbs and animals, which they buy as ear-rings and bracelets for the saints, in order that the originals may be healed.
[179]: Of making one's self invulnerable.—Tr.
[180]: The Centaurs could not prostrate him with trees, but had to press him, as he stood erect, into the earth. Orph. Argonaut. 168.
[181]: Ankerstrœm was a Swedish regicide, born 1759, and executed, for killing Gustavus III., in 1792.—Tr.
[182]: The name given to a certain elevation above the sea, determined by Bouger, at which the mountains in all zones are covered with snow.
[183]: Blutschuld,—forfeiture of life (Schuld meaning both debt and guilt).—Tr.
[184]: Died in 1800. He was a famous and forcible writer against the French Revolution and the Jacobin clubs, from which latter he drew on himself extreme odium. He wrote "Historical Sketches and Political Observations on the French Revolution," in seventeen volumes.—Tr.
[185]: A piece of iron that made speaking impossible.—Tr.