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water, earth, &c. It is possible that amidst their cant and corrupted dialect many 

 mutilated remains of their native language might still be discovered. 



Note. This has been done by a learned German (Grellmann), who has made 

 it evident that they are the remains of an expelled nation from between Persia and 

 Hindostan. 



Vol. I. p. 333 [258]. Gypsies are called in French, Bohemians ; in Italian and 

 modern Greek, Zingani. 



Note. The Zingani in Calibria and Apulia are not gypsies, but Christian 

 Greeks with a very strange religion. 



Vol. I. p. 358 [278]. Thus far it is plain that the deprivation of masculine 

 rigour puts a stop to the growth of those parts or appendages that are looked upon 

 as its insignia. 



Note. Blumenbach told me that the abscission of the horns of the stag and 

 male deer had the effect of castration. 



Vol. II. p. 7 



Say, lahat impels, amidst surrounding snow 

 Congeal? d> the crocus' flamy bud to glow f 

 Say, "what retards, amidst the summer's blaz-e, 

 Ttt autumnal bulb, //// pale, declining days f 

 The GOD of SEASONS, whose per-vading power 

 Controls the sun, or shtds the fleecy shower : 

 He bids each flvwer his quick' 'ning -word obey ; 

 Or to each lingering bloom enjoins delay. 



Note. A noble paraphrase of " / don't know." 



Vol. 11. p. 10 [310]. Some birds have movements peculiar to the season of 

 love : thus ringdoves, though strong and rapid at other times, yet in the Spring 

 hang about on the wing in a toying and playful manner ; thus the cock snipe, 

 while breeding, forgetting his former flight, fans the air like the wind-hover, &c. 



Note. This matter has disappointed me. I have myself made and collected a 

 better table of characters of flight and motion. 



Vol. II. p. 101 [376]. Why the juices in the small bodies and smaller limbs of 

 such minute beings are not frozen is a matter of curious inquiry. 



Note. The more apposite question, perhaps, would be: the juices having been 

 frozen, is it not plain from this that the vital principle subsists in the solids ? The 

 juices in a frozen caterpillar are mere ice, and it breaks like a cylinder of thin glass 

 of the same size, and yet thaw it with your breath and the animal crawls. 



Vol. II. p. 106 [380]. A circumstance that I must not omit, because it was new 

 to us, is that on Friday, December 10, being bright sunshine, the air was full of icy 



