qui s'échelonnent : lying in terraces

9. la Camargue. The marshy, pondstudded delta of the Rhône, a few miles away to the southward. For a sketch of this country, its scenery, and people, see En Camargue in Daudet's Lettres de mon Moulin.

10. septembrissiâes: indiscriminate massacres. This word originated in an allusion to the massacre of political prisoners at Paris, September 2, 1792. See Carlyle's History of the French Révolution^ Book IV., chaps. 4, 5, 6.