[ [258] 188. Piebald. Cf. pied, line 79.
[ [259] 260. Needle's eye. Cf. Matthew xix. 24; Mark x. 25; Luke xviii. 25.
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[ [260]1. Hogue. Cape La Hogue, on the east side of the same peninsula as Cape La Hague, was the scene, in 1692, of the defeat of the French by the united English and Dutch fleets.
[ [261] 5. Saint Malo on the Rance; a town on a small island near the shore of France. The entrance to its fine harbor is very narrow and filled with rocks. At high tide there is forty-five to fifty feet of water, but at low tide this channel is dry.
[ [262] 30. Plymouth Sound. Plymouth is on the southwestern coast of England.
[ [263] 43. Pressed; forced into military or naval service.
[ [264] 43. Tourville; the famous French admiral, who commanded at La Hogue.
[ [265] 44. Croisickese; La Croisic, a small fishing village near the mouth of the Loire, which Browning often visited.