I Have Elsewhere Remarked This As Indicating How Little Diffused Was Literary Ambition Or Vanity; But It Would Perhaps Be More Correct To Ascribe It To That Intense Dislike Which Is Still Seen On The Shores Of The Mediterranean To The Use Of Pen And Ink.

On certain of those shores at least there is scarcely any inconvenience that the majority of respectable and good-natured people will not tolerate - inconvenience to their neighbours be it understood - rather than put pen to paper for the purpose of preventing it.

[1] 232 chapters in the oldest French which we quote as the Geographic Text (or G. T.), 200 in Pauthier's Text, 183 in the Crusca Italian.

[2] The MS. has been printed by Baldelli as above, and again by Bartoli in 1863.

[3] This is somewhat peculiar. I traced a few lines of it, which with Del Riccio's note were given in facsimile in the First Edition.

[4] The Crusca is cited from Bartoli's edition.

French idioms are frequent, as l'uomo for the French on; quattro-vinti instead of ottanta; etc.

We have at p. 35, "Questo piano e molto cavo," which is nonsense, but is explained by reference to the French (G. T.) "Voz di qu'il est celle plaingne mout chaue" (chaude).

The bread in Kerman is bitter, says the G. T. "por ce que l'eive hi est amer," because the water there is bitter. The Crusca mistakes the last word and renders (p. 40) "e questi e per lo mare che vi viene."

"Sachies de voir qe endementiers," know for a truth that whilst - - , by some misunderstanding of the last word becomes (p. 129) "Sappiate di vero sanza mentire."

"Mes de sel font-il monoie" - "They make money of salt," becomes (p. 168) "ma fannole da loro," sel being taken for a pronoun, whilst in another place sel is transferred bodily without translation.

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