[2] Literally: "to strike two flies with one flapper."—Trans.
[3] The river on which Halle is built.—Trans.
[4] The river that flows by Leipzig.—Trans.
[5] Leipzig was so called, because a large and influential portion of its citizens were sprung from a colony of Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.—American Note.
[6] That is to say, the influence of Gottsched on German literature, of which more is said in the next book.—Trans.
[SEVENTH BOOK.]
Leipzig (continued)—German Literature