[Footnote 98]: The island of Ischia itself.
[Footnote 99]: Day-sight (hemeralopy) is common in hot countries; the strongest degree is, to be blind in the night even to light, and only in the morning able to see again.
[Footnote 100]: There are metamorphosing mirrors which represent young forms as decrepit.
[Footnote 101]: Him and Liana.
[Footnote 102]: Campania Felice.—Tr.
[Footnote 103]: Spurge is a plant which has an emetic effect.—If any reader will try his hand at improving this desperate imitation (or evasion) of an untranslatable pun, of which (in the mouth of the witty Princesse herself) the author might have said, with an equally noted artiste, in a smaller sphere,—"One of our failures,"—he is informed that the German phrases are "Eine bessere Laufbahn" and "Einen bösem Laufgraben."—Tr.
[Footnote 104]: The reader, however, will know how to explain it who recalls the adventure which Roquairol told Albano of Linda with the snake, when she was a young girl. See Vol. I. p. 331.—Tr.
[Footnote 105]: At Baja.
[Footnote 106]: Question her no longer, for her father will come (it is said) on the day of the nuptials.
[Footnote 107]: A very beautiful Carthusian convent at Valencia.