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 NOTES TO CANTO X.

$1$ Durancolo: this name is giren to the canals derived from the Durance.

$2$ Tartanes, the name of a small trading-craft common in the Mediterranean.

$3 4 5$ Birds common in Camargue. The Provençal name Cambet designates several birds of the order of the echassiers, chiefly the large red-legged chevalier, Scolopax celidrix, and the small red-legged chevalier, Tringa gambetta. The hern is the Ardea nyclicorax of Linnæus.

$6$ The Pancratian maritimus.

$7 8$ Atriplex porlulacoïdes and Phylleria latifolia, a large shrub of the jessamine family.

$9$ Campoustello, in the middle ages Campus Stellæ, once the capital of Gallicia, in Spain, now a town of thirty thousand inhabitants, with a fine old cathedral, containing the tomb of St. James the Major, patron saint of Spain.