[Footnote 79]: Strasburg cathedral.—Tr.
[Footnote 80]: The hall of the Pantheon seems too low, because a part of its steps is hidden by the rubbish.
[Footnote 81]: This opening in the roof is twenty-seven feet in diameter.
[Footnote 82]: The pole-star, as well as other northern constellations, stands lower in the south.
[Footnote 83]: The sum and system of electric, galvanic, chemical, anatomical experiments, tactics, a corpus juris, &c., may well put us to astonishment; but humanity itself appears no greater for gigantic structures, which are put together by millions of elephant-ants; but when an elephant carries a building, when an individual shows any one power in new degrees and relations,—Newton the power of mathematical intuition; Raphael the plastic; Aristotle, Lessing, Fichte, penetration; or another goodness, firmness, wit, &c,—then does humanity gain and extend its limits.
[Footnote 84]: In Greenland the intense cold makes people black and blind.
[Footnote 85]: Wherein since the time of Servius Tullius all potshards have been thrown.
[Footnote 86]: This expression seems to be borrowed from Goethe's "Fisher":—
"Lockt dich dein eigen Angesicht, Nicht her in ewigen Thau?"—Tr.
[Footnote 87]: See Titan, 3d Cycle. [Painting, i. e. rouging of the cheeks.—Tr.]