les montées et les c.escentes. — "The slopes

' Page 11, line 1. Uattrait. — Attrait is used both objectively and subjectively ; (Compare 1. 24 p. 9,) hère it is perbaps best traiislated by : " the invincible atti'action which this enterprise had for the poor geographer."

1. 7. et oh Vasco de Oama, etc. — "And not long before Vasco de Grama discovered."