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                                     Notes

1 See Handel's compositions for the harpsichord, published by Litolf, p. 78.
 
2 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 ourselves.
 
3 What a safe word relation is; how little it predicates! yet it has overgrown
kinsman.
 
4 The root alluded to is not the potato of our own gardens, 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.«
 
5 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 recognized, 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 they know their drivers and keepers; and that they will play pranks upon a
stranger. It is my intention, on a future occasion, to bring together examples
both of the expressions in common use among mechanicians, and of any
extraordinary exhibitions of mechanical sagacity and eccentricity that I can
meet with - not as believing in the Erewhonian Professor's theory, but from the
interest of the subject.

