FOOTNOTES:
[1] The book referred to was the "Études de la Nature."—Translator.
[2] Dittany was formerly much used as a cordial and sedative.—Translator.
[3] Jean Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, was born August 1, 1744; died December 20, 1829. His chief work is his "History of Invertebrate Animals."—Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was born in 1772, and died in 1844. He expounds his theory of natural history in the "Philosophie Anatomique," 2 vols., 1818-20.—Translator.
[4] Alphonse Toussenel, an illustrious French littérateur, born in 1803. The first edition of his "Le Monde des Oiseaux, Ornithologie Passionelle," was published in 1852.—Translator.
[5] The frigate bird, or man-of-war bird (Trachypetes aquila).—Translator.
[6] Alluding to a popular superstition, which Béranger has made the subject of a fine lyric:—
"What means the fall of yonder star,
Which falls, falls, and fades away?...
My son, whene'er a mortal dies,
Earthward his star drops instantly."—Translator.
[7] It was with this exordium Toussaint commenced his appeal to Napoleon Bonaparte.
[8] Napoleon's treatment of Toussaint L'Ouverture is one of the darkest spots on his fame. He flung this son of the Tropics into a dungeon among the icy fastnesses of the Alps, where he died, slain by cold and undeserved ill-treatment, on the 27th of April 1803.—Translator.