17 10. doubtful suspicion and indirect presumption. Note the additional force given to the nouns by the adjectives.
17 18. Weseloff. This gentleman is referred to again at more length in pages 45-50.
17 31. sanctions. Compare the note on p. 2, l. 12. The sense in which the word is used justifies the use of violate in the next line.
18 24. first of all. Again see how, by use of this phrase, followed later by secondly, thirdly, etc., De Quincey gains greater clearness for his various points.
19 29. But the time, etc. Here is the first general division point in the main narrative. The genesis of the plot has been described; now follow the active preliminaries to the flight.
19 33. one vast conflagration. Compare the account, p. 25.
20 12, 13. But where or how, etc. Note again the effective use of interrogation. How does it stimulate interest?
20 17. Kirghises. The spelling Kirghiz is more familiar. Like the Bashkirs, nomads of the Mongolian-Tartar race, perhaps the least civilized of those inhabiting the steppes.
20 26. rhetoric. In what sense used here? Is this use correct?
21 5. Sarepta. Locate this town; it is on a small river that empties into the Volga. "The point of the reference to this particular town is that it was a colony of industrious Germans, having been founded in 1764 or 1765 by the Moravian Brothers."—BALDWIN.