un songe-creux, 'a dreamer

1. 26. une eau hyémale, '• a winter stream.' Hyémale is more generally and more correctly written hiémale.

Page 145. 1. 8. atocas. We hâve been unable to discover the exact meaning of this word, which is not foundin ahy of the large dictionaries, including Littré and Larousse. Dr. Daniel Sanders, Fremdwôrterbuch, Vol. I, 1871, gives Atocha as esparto grass.

Page 146. 1. 3. L'isole di Fortuna, or a vedete, 'The isles

of Fortune now you see,' a quotation from Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, Canto XV, verse 27.

1. 10. sphaignes, ' bog-moss.' Dicranum is another kind of moss growing on sandy shores.