[127] _Delle Cause della grandezza delle Città_, etc., del Giovanni
Botero. _Milano_, ed. 1596, p. 61.
[128] _Divers Voyages et Missions du P. Alexandre de Rhodes, en la Chine,
& autres Royaumes de l’Orient_, etc. _Paris_, 1653, p. 49.
[129] Catharine of Braganza, wife of Charles II.
[130] Portugal.
[131] The Works of Thomas Brown, ed. 1708, vol. iii., p. 86.
[132] His friend Tyers parodied the last phrase as “_te_ inviente die,
_te_ decedente.”
[133] _Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux côtes du Chily, et
du Pérou, fait pendant les années 1712, 13, 14_, par Amédée François
Frezier. _Paris_, 1716, 4ᵒ.
[134] _Joyfull Newes out of the newe founde Worlde_, etc. Englished, by
Jhon Frampton, _Marchaunt_, 1577, fol 101 b.
[135] Garden beds in which seeds are planted.
[136] Lima.
[137] Tschudi travelled in Peru, 1838-1842.
[138] _Travels in Peru_, by C. R. Markham, 1862, p. 237.
[139] In 1861, the cesto of Coca sold at 8 dollars in Sandia. In Huanaco
it was 5 dollars the aroba of 25 lbs.
[140] Ed. 1879, p. 363.
[141] _A Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea, etc., by
John Barbot, etc. Now first printed from his original MS., 1732._
[142] Part 2, Section 5.—Mem. 1, Sub. 5.
[143] For a list of 500 Coffee Houses, see Appendix to _Social Life in
the Reign of Queen Anne_, by John Ashton.
[144] _Memoirs and Observations in his Travels over England_, etc.
[145] _A Brief Description of the excellent Vertues of that Sober and
Wholesome Drink called Coffee._ 1674, s. sh. fol.
[146] _The Mineral Water Maker’s Manual for 1866_, from which many
receipts are taken with thanks.
[147] Twaddell’s Hydrometer. From 11 to 12 lbs. sugar to the gallon
should give something near this specific gravity.
[148] A sufficient quantity.
[149] About 8½ lbs. loaf sugar to the gallon of water should produce this
S. G.
[150] An extract made from orange flowers.
[151] Or Butyric Ether, known as Essence of Pine-apple.
[152] Jargonelle Ether.
[153] Beware, however, of one compound ether, which gives the taste of
cinnamon, and is, Ethyl Perchlorate. This mixture is _explosive_!!!
[154] Raspberries.
[155] The form of this thanksgiving is very nearly akin to that said on
the occasion of eating any of the five kinds of cooked food from which
the _challah_ is due.
[156] Arist., _Metaph._, i., 3.
[157] Seneca, _Nat. Quæst._, iii., 13.
[158] _Ibid._, iv., 13.
[159] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, xxiii., 24.
[160] p. 220.
[161] Other authorities concerning this remarkable drinking fountain are
Nieremberg (_Occult. Philos._, ii., 350), Clavijo, Cairasio, and Dapper.
[162] _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_, xi., p. 499.
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