en entonnoir, 'fimnel-like

12. Westermann. He had been one of the leaders in the attack on the Tuileries in Augnst, 1792, and subsequently joiued Duiuouriez's army in Belgium. For bis faiinre at Cb&tillon, whm c-omii:auding in lÂ

' Vendée, he was tried but acquitted. He was victoriuus afterwards at La Jlans and Saveimy. Duriug the rtigu of Tirror he was executed by urder of La Montagne (Robespierre's purty) in 1794.

13. traquait, ' hanassed.' TVuijuer is properly to draw a net rouiid a wood to catch the game in it. It is of Germau origin. Cf., in Netherlaud dialect, trékken.

14. se terraient, t.«. 'burrowed ont dwillings for themselves.'

16. n semblait que oe quadrilatère. . . . l'Le théâtre uf the war, says Thiers {Réeolution Française,, vol. ii. p. 382), niiglit be cumprised in u Lue which, starting from Nantes, would pnss thi'uugti Pornic, tlie iblaud of Noirmoutiers, les Salles, Luçon, Fontenay, Niort, end returu by Kivrault, Thouars, Doué, and St. Florent, as fur as the Loire,