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Note 21. Page 47.

  Nimrod.] The sixth son of Cush, “a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Arcad and Calnech, in the land of Shinar.

Note 22. Page 47.

  The Serbes, or Servians, the inhabitants of Servia, now belonging to European Turkey.

Note 23. Page 47.

  Achilles the butterfly.] A diurnal butterfly, from a yellow caterpillar, which lives upon the cujava tree.

Note 24. Page 69.

  Till the eagle, &c.] The Austrian eagle has since verified the prediction; which prediction is to be found in all the ancient Bohemian historians.

Note 25. Page 71.

  This privilege was only taken from them by Prince Metternich.

Note 26. Page 76.

  In Germany they invariably, when speaking of a rejected lover, use the phrase, Er hat den Korb bekommen, “he has got the basket.”