[1] _The Gold-Bug_ was first published in _The Dollar Magazine_ in
1843. The story won a prize of one hundred dollars.
[2] 100:3 All in the Wrong. The title of an amusing comedy by Arthur
Murphy (1730-1805).
[3] 100:4 Huguenot. French Protestants, many of whom settled in South
Carolina.
[4] 100: 18 Fort Moultrie. Erected in. 1776. Defended against the
British by Colonel William Moultrie.
[5] 101:23 Swammerdam. A famous Dutch naturalist (1637-1680).
[6] 101:25 manumitted. Freed from slavery.
[7] 102:27 scarabaeus. The Latin for beetle.
[8] 103:15 antennae. The feelers.
[9] 105:8 scarabaeus caput hominis. Man's-head beetle.
[10] 107:20 noovers. Manoeuvres.
[11] 109:10 brusquerie. Lack of cordiality.
[12] 110:26 empressement. Demonstrativeness.
[13] 123:20 curvets and caracoles. Leaping and prancing of a horse.
[14] 128:9 counters. Various coins.
[15] 128:28 Bacchanalian. Revelling like the worshippers of Bacchus,
the god of wine.
[16] 134:28 Zaffre. An oxide of cobalt. See dictionary.
[17] 134:28 aqua regia. Royal water—a mixture of nitric and
hydrochloric acids.
[18] 134:30 regulus. An old chemical term.
[19] 135: 28 Captain Kidd. A Scottish sea captain who lived in New York
in the seventeenth century.
[20] 138:19 Golconda. A town in India noted for its diamond market.
[21] 138:28 cryptographs. Secret forms of writing.
[22] 139:27 Spanish main. The northeastern portion of South America,
the Caribbean Sea, and the coast of North America to the Carolinas were
harassed by the Spaniards.
[23] 144:6 rationale. Reasonable basis.
[24] 149:19 insignium. Sign.