de blanches routes rigides, straight white roads

4. le Bocage, Vendée is dividcd, according to geological configuration, into three natural parts: le Bocage or hilly part in the north, the more level and flat country called la Plaine, and le Marais in the south and Southwest.

5. les têtards, name given to the trees the top {la tête) of which has been allowed to grow while the main branches hâve been trimmed.

6. tourmentés, évidés, etc., torturedf trimmed, hattered, twisted into painfvl convulsions under the leafy top, etc. Figé means literally congealed, also immobUized into a certain aUitvde or position,

7. jusqu'à la coupée des barrières, up to where it is cviby fences.

8. pourquoi ... Farbre n'est-il pas en pleine haie? why does not the tree remain directly in thé hedge?