418 NOTES 



P. 382 See, Freeman's Journal (Philadelphia), 

 Dec. 24, 1783- 



" At the French Academy 



In Lodge Alley 



At the particular request of a number of ladies & 

 gentlemen will be danced a second time on Saturday 

 the 27th instant by five & twenty scholars of the said 

 Academy 



A Ballet 



Representing the return of peace and the coronation of 

 the success of America 



* * 



There will be also decorations & transparent scenes 

 emblematical of the occasion, with an addition to the 

 figures and the scenery 



* * 



N. B. No admittance without tickets." 



P. 385 This communication appears in the Free- 

 man's Journal for Nov. 26, 1783, signed ' A. B.' who 

 quotes the Voyage to the Moon of Cyrano de Bergerac. 



Francis Baily was the publisher of this very good 

 newspaper, ('in Market-Street between Third and 

 Fourt h- Streets '), of whom Bayard remarks- ' C'est 

 un homme bon, dans toute Tenergie de Texpression 

 anglaise, qui, pour etre sentie, doit etre accompagnee 

 de la valeur que lui donna Pope." 



Voyage dans I'Interieur &c., p. 115. 



P- 393 Priscian, the first of Latin grammarians, 

 although in point of time one of the latest The phrase 

 once current, " To break the head of Priscian." 



P. 395 What Schoepf himself had attempted to do 

 was not understood as early as 1798. See, Benjamin 



