qui, for et qui : cf. p

4. Pontarabie : this small Spanish town, at the mouth of the Bidassoa, was formerly very important. It was besieged and taken by Marshal Berwick in 1719.

et il : i. e. et le géomètre.

6. en l'air : in this sensé we should now rather say dans F air

or dans les airs.

7. le succès : in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this

Word was generally used in the sensé of 'issue,' whether good or bad.