Plaine, Marais, Bocage, see page 148, note

3. où moutonnent dans l'aveuglante lumière, etc., where the large russet waves of the harvests hûlow in the dazzling light.

4. le bâton sautoux, the jumping stick or pale used to vault across the marshes or canals, in that part of Vendée.

Page 96. 1. la montagne des Alouettes, the highest summit of Vendée (about 600 f eet) . .

2. Nantes, a town on the Loire river, in the département of Loire- Inférieure.

3. La Rochelle, a town in the département of Charente-Inférieure. A protestant stronghold, it was besieged and taken by Cardinal de Richelieu in 1627-1628. A colony from that French. cvt^ ^wmàfc^^Jwî^ town of New RocheUe in the state of ConnecticMt.