Notes

The Gold-Bug was first published in The Dollar Magazine in 1843. The story won a prize of one hundred dollars.

100:3 All in the Wrong. The title of an amusing comedy by Arthur Murphy (1730-1805).

100:4 Huguenot. French Protestants, many of whom settled in South Carolina.

100: 18 Fort Moultrie. Erected in. 1776. Defended against the British by Colonel William Moultrie.

101:23 Swammerdam. A famous Dutch naturalist (1637-1680).

101:25 manumitted. Freed from slavery.

102:27 scarabaeus. The Latin for beetle.

103:15 antennae. The feelers.

105:8 scarabaeus caput hominis. Man's-head beetle.

107:20 noovers. Manoeuvres.

109:10 brusquerie. Lack of cordiality.

110:26 empressement. Demonstrativeness.

123:20 curvets and caracoles. Leaping and prancing of a horse.

128:9 counters. Various coins.

128:28 Bacchanalian. Revelling like the worshippers of Bacchus, the god of wine.

134:28 Zaffre. An oxide of cobalt. See dictionary.

134:28 aqua regia. Royal water—a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids.

134:30 regulus. An old chemical term.

135: 28 Captain Kidd. A Scottish sea captain who lived in New York in the seventeenth century.

138:19 Golconda. A town in India noted for its diamond market.

138:28 cryptographs. Secret forms of writing.

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.

144:6 rationale. Reasonable basis.

149:19 insignium. Sign.