[13] Quotation-marks.—Tr.
[14] A good Wouwermann means, in painters' language, a well-executed horse, the sight of which has an influence on the beauty of the future colt.
[15] This name is given to the quantum which is withheld from the associate judges of the Supreme Court when they have not worked enough.
[16] The Ipecacuanha belongs to the Violet species.
[17] Of the order of St. Paul, or memento mori, which died in France in the seventeenth century. The above address is its usual greeting.
[18] The Zahouris in Spain are, as is well known, gifted with the power of discerning corpses, veins of metal, &c. far under the earth.
[19] According to the account of some astronomers, that the sun, when eclipsed, has sometimes shone through an opening of the moon, Ulloa, e. g., assures us that he once witnessed.
[20] In Calabria (1785) a thousand and four earthquakes happened in the space of three fourths of a year.—Münter's Travels, &c.