ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
Page 11, line 16. “ A most interesting and remarkable 
phcenomenon."'} — The same appearance has been since ob- 
served near Cambridge, as numerous witnesses can testify, 
and precisely under similar meteorological circumstances. 
The stars were, if possible, even more perfect in their forms 
than at Petersburg. This happened Jan. 16, at hall-past ten 
a.m. during the year of the publication of this Volume. An 
account of it appeared in the Cambridge Chronicle. 
P. 26, 1. 8, 9. “ Brought with them the pictures of the 
Saints .”3 — Broniovius, in his account of the city of Cher- 
sonesus, has afforded historical evidence of the fact. “ Ex 
illo monasterio duas portas eeris Corintkii, . ... et Imagines 
insigniores Kioviam deportavisse.” Martini Broniovii 
Tartaria. L. Bat. 1630. The words Imagines insigniores can 
only apply to pictures : the Greek Church admitted idols of 
no other form. 
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P. 153. Note (1.) " It was founded, according to Augustine, 
in 1653, during the reign of Alexis.”]]— The discordant ac- 
counts which have been published of the age of this bell are 
owing to a circumstance I neglected to notice : it has been 
more than once founded. The first cast was made in the 
reign of Boris Gudenof, and injured by a fire. The Empress 
Anne, in 1737, caused it to be re-founded, with considerable 
augmentation of metal, when it was again damaged by fire. 
This explains the cause of the different statements made, 
concerning its weight and age, by different authors; and 
accounts for the figure of the Empress Anne Ivanovna upon 
its exterior surface. 
