Le fin fond. ^ Fin’ here emphasizes the distance ex

pressed by fond. Of . : Il s’enfuit au fin fond du pays, He fled to the very depths of the country. Il vient du fin fond de l’Asie, He cornes from the remotest corner of Asia. Render, ‘thelowest depth,’ ‘ the nethermost.’

18. — Des enfers. The sing. would hâve been used without change of meaning, — ‘ le fin fond de l’enfer.’ Sound the r in enfer[s).

21. — Tout à loisir. A loisir=sans me presser, à mon aise, ‘ quite leisurely. ’

23.— A la suite d’Homère, de Milton, etc. That is, following Homer as' he describés the war of the Greeks against Troy (in the Iliad) or the wanderings of Ulysses

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(in thé Odyssey) ; Milton, as he narrâtes the actions of the fallen angels in Paradise Lost ; Virgil, when he recounts the wanderings of Æneas (in the Æneid), and Ossian,* the mythical Gaelic bard, who narrâtes the exploits of Fingal in delivering Erin from king Swaren.

84. 28. — Le Piré©- — The Piræ'us, the fortified port of i^thens, and

distant 5 miles to the S. W.