Murray, a guide book, the English Baedecker

Page 103. — I. cheveux blonds filasse. Filasse = hemp or flax, ready to be spun, thus: flaxen hair.

2. la peau truitée, speckled skin^ lit.: "the skin covered with little red dots like a trout (truite)."

3. impropre, used hère in English sensé, not in the French sensé of " unsuitable," though on page 31, Une 8, the author introduces the English Word.

4. le laird de Dumbidike. One of the characters in the '* I/eart of Mid Lothian'' (1818) by Sir Walter Scott. Formerly the title was, as Gautier gives it: ^^The Prison of Edinburgh."

Page 104. — I. Terracine. Terracina, a town on the Mediterranean, fifty-eight miles southeast of Rome. Fondi, a town fifty-six miles northwest of Naples. — This part of Italy was not without danger for travelers before the time of railroads.

Page 106. — I. s'enferrer = to run one*s self through with the weapon {le fer).

2. mancenillier, a tree found in the Tropics of America, the juice of which is very poisonous.