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Rh Nimrod.] The sixth son of Cush, “a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Arcad and Calnech, in the land of Shinar.

The Serbes, or Servians, the inhabitants of Servia, now belonging to European Turkey.

Achilles the butterfly.] A diurnal butterfly, from a yellow caterpillar, which lives upon the cujava tree.

Till the eagle, &c.] The Austrian eagle has since verified the prediction; which prediction is to be found in all the ancient Bohemian historians.

This privilege was only taken from them by Prince Metternich.

In Germany they invariably, when speaking of a rejected lover, use the phrase, Er hat den Korb bekommen, “he has got the basket.”