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100: 18 Fort Moultrie. Erected in. 1776. Defended against the British by Colonel William Moultrie.
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101:23 Swammerdam. A famous Dutch naturalist (1637-1680).
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101:25 manumitted. Freed from slavery.
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102:27 scarabaeus. The Latin for beetle.
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103:15 antennae. The feelers.
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105:8 scarabaeus caput hominis. Man's-head beetle.
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107:20 noovers. Manoeuvres.
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109:10 brusquerie. Lack of cordiality.
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110:26 empressement. Demonstrativeness.
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123:20 curvets and caracoles. Leaping and prancing of a horse.
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128:9 counters. Various coins.
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128:28 Bacchanalian. Revelling like the worshippers of Bacchus, the god of wine.
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134:28 Zaffre. An oxide of cobalt. See dictionary.
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134:28 aqua regia. Royal water – a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids.
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134:30 regulus. An old chemical term.
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135: 28 Captain Kidd. A Scottish sea captain who lived in New York in the seventeenth century.
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138:19 Golconda. A town in India noted for its diamond market.
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138:28 cryptographs. Secret forms of writing.
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139:27 Spanish main. The northeastern portion of South America, the Caribbean Sea, and the coast of North America to the Carolinas were harassed by the Spaniards.
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144:6 rationale. Reasonable basis.
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149:19 insignium. Sign.
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Published in the March, 1843, number of The Pioneer, edited by J. R. Lowell. Republished in Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846.
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154:29 "Eve," of Powers. A noted American sculptor (1805-1873). "Eve," "The Fisher Boy," and "America" are some of his chief works.
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168:28 Pygmalion. A sculptor and king of Cyprus.
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181:16 recondite. Abstruse or secret.