insensible ou échevelée, unconsdoics or frantic

Page 147. 1. des lacets, des crochets, des détours, windings, turns, bends,

2. pique droit dans le sol, plunges straight into the ground.

3. Le grand conflit vital, etc., on the contrary, the great vital conflid tends to render them (the earth and sky) unavailable,

4. chemin creux, a hollow, a road eut deep between hills or élévations.

5. Vendée, the French province and département of Vendée, south of the Loire river and along the Atlantic Océan. Its capital is La Roche-^ur-Yon,

6. en vertu d'une vue de l'esprit, as the resvU of a preconcdved plan.

Page 148. 1. École polytechnique, a govemment school in Paris for military engineers and artillery o^cers.

2. creusant* d*une lourde semelle, etc., digging with the heavy soles of their wooden shoes the slimy road, rvUed hy winter,wUhno possible repairs.