Toutes les fois qu'un, whenever a

Page 104. — il en est une autre, there is anolher (of them). The expression il est, used regularly in poetry, is considered more élégant than il y a.

2. En faisant abstraction des, leaving out of considération the.

3. puisse, subjunctive required after the hypothetical conjunctive phrase aussi mince qu\

Page 106. — 1. n'ont d'autre cause que, hâve no other cause than. 2. à proprement parler, properly speaking.

Page 107. — 1. fait mieux valoir, sets off better.

Page 108. — 1. à peu d'exceptions près, withfew exceptions.

2. tant qu'elles ne sont pas, unless they are; lit. "as long as they are not."

3. MM. Martins (1806-1889) et Bravais (1811-1863), French naturalists and writers on meteorology.

Page 109. — 1. Aoste, Aosta, in the northwestern extremity of Italy, to the southeast of Mont Blanc.

2. M. Brewster (1781-1868), a natural philosopher and writer of considérable distinction, boni in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh.

3. Hartz, or Harz, a range of mountains in Germany, located not only in Hanover, but extending also into Anhalt, Brunswick, and the province of Saxony.

Page 110. — 1. Hanovre, Hanover, German Hannover, formerly an independent kingdom, but now a province of Prussia in the northwestern part of the German Empire. The Brocken itself is not in Hanover, but in the province of Saxony.