[5] Deane, “Archæologia,” vol. xxv.
[6] See Mr. Jephson’s “Walking Tour in Brittany,” and Tom Taylor’s recent book of “Translations of Breton Songs and Ballads.”
[7] P. Fletcher, “The Purple Island,” canto i. 45.
[8] Tennyson, Poems: “Mariana.”
[9] Angus Reach, “Claret and Olives.”
[10] The fir plantations, which are so numerous in the Landes, were first formed in 1789, under the direction of the minister, M. Necker (father of Madame de Stael). In 1862, the department had a population of 300,859. Acreage, 2,434,752.
[11] Angus B. Reach, “Claret and Olives.”
[12] M. Perris, in “Mémoires de l’Académie de Lyon.”
[13] “Dunes,” from dun, a hill. These sand-mounds also extend along the coast of the Netherlands, where they serve to protect the low country from tidal inundation. “In some places,” says a traveller, “they look like a series of irregular hills; and when seen from the top of the steeples, they are so huge as to shut out the view of the sea. The traveller, in visiting them from the fertile plains, all at once ascends into a region of desert barrenness. He walks on and on for miles in a wilderness such as might be expected to be seen in Africa, and at last emerges on the sea-shore, where the mode of creation of this singular kind of territory is at once conspicuous.”—W. Chambers, “Tour in Holland.”
[14] Rev. S. Rowe, “Perambulation of the Ancient Forest of Dartmoor” (ed. by Dr. E. Moore; London, 1856).