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Footnotes

{1} The last part of Chapter XXIII.
{2} See Handel’s compositions for the harpsichord, pub-
lished by Litolf, p. 78.
{3} The myth above alluded to exists in Erewhon with
changed names, and considerable modifications. I have
taken the liberty of referring to the story as familiar to our-
selves.
{4} What a SAFE word ‘relation’ is; how little it predicates!
yet it has overgrown ‘kinsman.’
{5} The root alluded to is not the potato of our own gar-
dens, but a plant so near akin to it that I have ventured to
translate it thus. Apropos of its intelligence, had the writer
known Butler he would probably have said -

“He knows what’s what, and that’s as high,
As metaphysic wit can fly.’

{6} Since my return to England, I have been told that
those who are conversant about machines use many terms
concerning them which show that their vitality is here
recognised, and that a collection of expressions in use
among those who attend on steam engines would be no less
startling than instructive. I am also informed, that almost
all machines have their own tricks and idiosyncrasies; that

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