[{141a}] Nut sailors; or, sailors in a nut-shell.
[{141b}] Those who sailed in the gourds.
[{147a}] Cabalusa and Hydamardia are hard words, which the commentators confess they can make nothing of. Various, however, are the derivations, and numerous the guesses made about them. The English reader may, if he pleases, call them not improperly, especially the first, Cabalistic.
[{147b}] Which the reader will remember was given him by way of charm, on his departure from the Happy Island.
[{148}] Gr. ονοσκελεας, asini-eruras, ass-legged.
[{149}] The ensuing books never appeared. The “True History,” like
—“the bear and fiddle,
Begins, but breaks off in the middle.”
D’Ablancourt, as I observed above, has carried it on a little farther. There is still room for any ingenious modern to take the plan from Lucian, and improve upon it.
[{153}] The ancient Greek stadium is supposed to have contained a hundred and twenty-five geometrical paces, or six hundred and twenty-five Roman feet, corresponding to our furlong. Eight stadia make a geometrical, or Italian mile; and twenty, according to Dacier, a French league. It is observed, notwithstanding, by Guilletiere, a famous French writer, that the stadium was only six hundred Athenian feet, six hundred and four English feet, or a hundred and three geometrical paces.
The Greeks measured all their distances by stadia, which, after all we can discover concerning them, are different in different times and places.