[Footnote 39]: The Diana-tree of the chemists is a crystallized composition of silver, mercury, and spirits of nitre.—Tr.
[Footnote 40]: Literally, the pastoral, &c.—Tr.
[Footnote 41]: Symmer observed the following: White and black stockings drawn over each other in dry, cold weather, when one draws them apart, the outer by the lower end, the inner by the upper end, become charged with opposite electricities, the white positive, the black negative; when separate, they swell out toward each other, and seek each other; when in contact, they hang down flat and broad.—Fisher's Physical Dictionary, Vol. I.
[Footnote 42]: The pastoral hour of sentimental love.—Tr.
[Footnote 43]: The "vant-courier" of the "thunderbolt."—Tr.
[Footnote 44]: On Wilhelmshöhe a long musical tone precedes the falling of the water.
[Footnote 45]: Both are names of the old German God of Thunder; he means himself, however, by this.
[Footnote 46]: The Molossi called all beautiful women Proserpines.
[Footnote 47]: Thus ought Schiller's Holy Virgin to be named.
[Footnote 48]: His Albano.