qui s'échelonnent : lying in terraces

9. la Camargue. The marshy, pond-studded delta of the Rhône, a f ew 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. sepitmblisaAeBX 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.