[2] Scale.--TR.
[3] This statue, thirty-five ells high, on a pedestal of
twenty-five ells, in whose head twelve men can find room, stands
near Arona, and is exactly of a height with Isola Bella, which
stands over against it, and which rises on ten gardens or
terraces built one upon another.--_Keysler's Travels, &c._, Vol.
I.
[4] The old Kremnitz ducats have the infant Jesus on the right
arm; but the new and _lighter_ ones on the left.
[5] Franklin advised the preserving and corking up of vessels
from which all the liquor had been drunk, in order thereby to
keep the ship afloat.
[6] The horse, in the funeral procession of a prince, that comes
last, and is decked out gayly for the successor of the
deceased.--TR.
[7] Gray-league (Grau-bünden), the Swiss Canton of the
Grisons.--TR.
[8] Pictures by Peter Molyn, who, on account of his fine storms,
was called only Tempesta.
[9] The Pasquino is notoriously mutilated.--Delia Porta was a
great restorer of old statues.
[10] I. e. to be pressed between two wooden cylinders and a
metallic one.
[11] This pill consists of Antimonia Regia, and by reason of its
hardness may be swallowed over and over again with the same
effect each time; only a little wine is sprinkled on it before
each repetition of the experiment.
[12] _Tirare di primavere_, the people call it; and Peter Schoppe
translated it grandly enough, _Electrical pistol-firing of
spring_.
[13] Quotation-marks.--TR.
[14] A good Wouwermann means, in painters' language, a
well-executed horse, the sight of which has an influence on the
beauty of the future colt.
[15] This name is given to the quantum which is withheld from the
associate judges of the Supreme Court when they have not worked
enough.
[16] The Ipecacuanha belongs to the Violet species.
[17] Of the order of St. Paul, or _memento mori_, which died in
France in the seventeenth century. The above address is its usual
greeting.
[18] The Zahouris in Spain are, as is well known, gifted with the
power of discerning corpses, veins of metal, &c. far under the
earth.
[19] According to the account of some astronomers, that the sun,
when eclipsed, has sometimes shone through an opening of the
moon, Ulloa, e. g., assures us that he once witnessed.
[20] In Calabria (1785) a thousand and four earthquakes happened
in the space of three fourths of a year.--_Münter's Travels, &c._
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