[Footnote 5: The title of this curious book is, _Geschichte der Mission der
evangelischen Brueder unter den Indianern in Nordamerika_, durch Georg H.
Loskiel: Barby, 1789, 8vo., pp. 783. Latrobe's translation of this book was
published Lond. 1794.]
[Footnote 6: This reminds one of the notion respecting
"The scorpion girt with fire,"
immortalised by Lord Byron's famous simile.]
[Footnote 7: _Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art and Nature; being the
Summe and Substance of Naturall Philosophy methodically digested_: London,
1661.]
[Footnote 8: In O'Brien's work on _The Round Towers of Ireland_, London,
1834, may be found much curious matter on this subject; and a good deal of
light is thrown on the horrors of Serpent or Boodhist worship. It is,
however, a wild and irreverent book, and by no means to be recommended to
the general reader, independently of the nature of its details. Mr. Payne
Knight's book is too well known to need mention here.]
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