devaient . . . paralyser, musthave . . . paralyzed

4. calamité ; this term is derived, through the Italian, from a word meaning "reed," the magnet being placed in a reed, or on fétus, to make it float.

5. Flavio Gioia, born toward the close of the thirteenth century near Amalfi, to the south of the city of Naples. The kingdom of Naples occupied the southern portion of the Italian peninsula.

6. son nom ; the name boussole has been borrowed from the Italian bussola, meaning properly "a little box," and then " mariner's compass."

Page 46. — I. pour avoir, because of having.