Tonte chanceuse, quite hazardous

1. 22. Munich, capital of Bavaria; built (962) by Henry of Saxony on a spot belonging to the monks of Schœffelaren ; hence its name.

I. 33, principautés ecclésiastiques ; because the ecclesiastical territories had during the revolutionary period been "secularised," i.e. handed over to the secular princes, to compensate them for what they gave up to France on the left bank of the Rhine. Thèse "sécularisations" were mostly the conséquence of the Peace of Lunéville in 1801. Before that time the great ecclesiastical princes of the empire, the archbi.shops of Mainz, Cologne, and Trêves, and others, had possessed a great part of the territory of Germany.

P. 47, 1. 9. Pausilippe à Naples. The old road from Naples to Pozzuoli passes through a tunnel three-quarters of a mile in length, which perforâtes the hill in the direction of its breadth, and is called Grotta di Posilipo, and also Grotta di Pozzuoli.

1. 19. agioteur, a money-speculator : the word agio means case, its fmancial use being derived from the "ease" or convenience of obtaining, through the payment of a commission to a broker, money on notes, bills of exchange, &c. Agioteur is always used now in an unfavourable sensé.