PART II

LE PIIARK DKS SAXCiUINAIRES.

1 phare : from ^dpos, name of the island on which stood the celebrated ancient lighthouse near Alexandria. For the light itself, the French use fett : feu fixe, "stationary light"; /fii tournant, " revolving hght " ; feu h éclipse, " éclipse light " ; feu à éclats, " flash light."

Les Iles Sanguinaires lie just off the point at the north of the entrance to the Gulf of Ajaccio, vvest coast of Corsica.

2 mistral : used along the French Mediterranean to dénote the northwest wind. The word cornes from the old Provençal maestral {inagistralis), zxvôi therefore means the " master " wind. The opposite, or southeast wind, is called the isséro in Southern France.

'^ moulin : the author's windmill, referred to in the préface above.

■* bruissaient : " rustled " ; or of pines : " moaned." The defective verb bruire gives je bruyais, etc., in the imperfect; but on the base of the manufactured noun bruissement, which Littré calls a " néologisme barbare du XYII* siècle," both the participle bruissant and the imperfect/^ bruissais hâve been constructed.

s corse: " Corsican," the noun and the adjective having the same form in French.

^ en ogive : " Gothic."

' à facettes: "prismatic" (in shape).

''tramontane: "north wind." Ttalian trainontana, " across the mountains."

■' au ras de : " on a level with."

'"goéland, "sea-guU," is more properly written " goéland " (pronounced go-'e-lan'), The word is of < eltic origiti.

" griserie : " exhilaration."