[1: Undoubtedly the finest coral is dredged from the Mediterranean; it
is an important article of commerce at Marseilles.]
[2: "The shrikes, or butcher-birds (_laniadae_), are a numerous and
widely-diffused assemblage, living upon the smaller birds and insects;
the former of which the shrike sticks, when killed, upon thorns, as a
butcher hangs up meat in his stall; hence the name of the
genus."--_Vestiges of Creation_.]
[3: Vestiges of Creation.]
[4: These birds build in the crevices of precipitous rocks, and tho
female lines the nest with the down plucked from her breast. From
these nests natives rob the down and sell it.]
[5: Vestiges of Creation.]
[6: "Oxides are neutral compounds, containing oxygen in equivalent
proportions."--_Dr. Ure_.]
[7: Sesquicarbonate of soda that is found in the west of the Delta. In
Mexico there are several natron lakes.]
[8: The cuneiform character, which was used in every part of Asia
Minor, up to the time of Alexander the Great, consists of a series of
wedges or accents variously combined, as, [Cuneiform: *** **]].
[9: A Metope may be described as the intermediate space in a Doric
frieze, between two triglyphs, or separating grooves.]