dans le temps, some time ago

un auteur célèbre., see above, note to p. 8, 1. 9.

L 18. Ukraine in the Russian language means bordering country ; it b a vast plain watered by the Dnieper, and includes the governments of Kiev, Pultowa, Tchemigov and Kharkov.

Hungary (Magyar- Orsza^ in the language of the country) comprises the circles of Pesth, Presburg, Oedenburg, Kaschau and Gross-Wardein. Capital Buda or Ofen.

P. 10, I. I. Ismaïl or Ismaïlov, a town in Moldavia, taken by Souwarow in 1789. Otchakov or Oczakov, a town situated at the mouth of the Dnieper, taken in 1 788 by the Russian army under the command of Potemkin.

L 4. qu^on en fit = qu^ on fit de lui, i. e. du procès, en hère is a pronoun.

1. 7. Quoi qu^il en soit = quoi qu'il soit de cela, at any rate.