which flies to spray and fertilizes nothing, even as high waterfalls break and flutter in thin mist over the earth." Albano welcomed his friends with atoning tenderness; but the youth became, as the day waxed, as dull and heavy-hearted as one who has stripped his chamber at the inn, settled his bill, and has only a few moments left to walk up and down in the bare, rough stubble-field, before the horses are brought. Like falling bodies, resolutions moved in his impetuous soul with increasing velocity and force every new second: with outward mildness, but inward vehemence, he begged his friends to start with him this very day. And so in the afternoon he went away with them from the still island of his childhood, speedily to enter, through the chestnut avenues of Milan, on a new theatre of his life, and to come upon the trap-door, which opens down into the subterranean passage of so many mysteries. FOOTNOTES: [2] Scale.--TR. [3] This statue, thirty-five ells high, on a pedestal of twenty-five ells, in whose head twelve men can find room, stands near Arona, and is exactly of a height with Isola Bella, which stands over against it, and which rises on ten gardens or terraces built one upon another.--_Keysler's Travels, &c._, Vol. I. [4] The old Kremnitz ducats have the infant Jesus on the right arm; but the new and _lighter_ ones on the left. [5] Franklin advised the preserving and corking up of vessels from which all the liquor had been drunk, in order thereby to keep the ship afloat. [6] The horse, in the funeral procession of a prince, that comes last, and is decked out gayly for the successor of the deceased.--TR. [7] Gray-league (Grau-bünden), the Swiss Canton of the Grisons.--TR. [8] Pictures by Peter Molyn, who, on account of his fine storms, was called only Tempesta. [9] The Pasquino is notoriously mutilated.--Delia Porta was a great restorer of old statues. [10] I. e. to be pressed between two wooden cylinders and a metallic one. [11] This pill consists of Antimonia Regia, and by reason of its hardness may be swallowed over and over again with the same effect each time; only a little wine is sprinkled on it before each repetition of the experiment. [12] _Tirare di primavere_, the people call it; and Peter Schoppe translated it grandly enough, _Electrical pistol-firing of spring_. [13] Quotation-marks.--TR. [14] A good Wouwermann means, in painters' language, a well-executed horse, the sight of which has an influence on the beauty of the future colt. [15] This name is given to the quantum which is withheld from the associate judges of the Supreme Court when they have not worked enough. [16] The Ipecacuanha belongs to the Violet species. [17] Of the order of St. Paul, or _memento mori_, which died in France in the seventeenth century. The above address is its usual greeting. [18] The Zahouris in Spain are, as is well known, gifted with the power of discerning corpses, veins of metal, &c. far under the earth.