4^1 KOTES. 



in the vicinity of Paris. It fometimes renders them (Tomplelciy 

 yellow, toward the clofe of Summer, by the colour of it's flowers. 

 This flower is rofe-formed, about the fize of a fliilling, without 

 rifing upon a flem. It enamels the ground, as does likewife it's 

 foliage, which fpreads very far, in form of net- work. Geefc 

 are very fond of this plant. It's leaves, in form of a goofe-foot, 

 adhering clofely to the ground, admit of the water-fowl'a walking 

 over them ss upon a carpet, and the yellow colour of it's flowers 

 forms a very beautiful contraft with the azure of the river, and 

 the verdure of the trees ; but efpecially with the marbled colour 

 of the geefe, which are perceptible on this ground at a great 

 ëiftance. 



(25) Formidable to the GoJs and to the Men of this Country. See 

 the Volofpa of the Irifli. This hiftory of Balder has a lingular 

 refemblance to that of Achilles plunged, by his mother Thetis, in 

 the river Styx, as far as the heel, in order to render him invulne- 

 rable, and, after all, killed by a wound in that part of the body 

 which had not been dipped, from an arrow difcharged by the 

 hand of the effeminate Paris. Thefe two ficlions of the Greeks, 

 and of the Savage Nations of the North, convey a moral meaning 

 founded in truth ; namely, that the powerful ought never to de- 

 ipife the feeble. 



(26) We -faffed fuccejjïvely through the territories of the Carnviesy 

 ^^c. The Carnutes were die inhabitants of the Pays Chartrain, 

 the Cenomanes, thofe of Mans, and the Diablintes, thofe of the 

 adjacent country. The Redons, who inhabited the city of Ren- 

 nes, had the Curiofolites in their vicinity ; and the tribes of Da- 

 rlorigum were neighbours to the Veneti, who inhabited Vannes, 

 in Britanny. It is alleged that the Venetians of the Adriatic 

 Gulf, who bear the fame name in Latin, derive their origin from 

 them. Confult C^r, Stiabc^ and X)rt«i'r7/t''j- Geography. 



(27) The ether might be preferred. Moft fruits which contain 

 an aggregation of iteds, as pomegranates, apples, pears, oranges, 



and 



