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Page 20. i. trennend, here an adverb, maybe translated last and 

 as a clause : and separate them. 



Page 21. i. Tromso, a port of northern Norway on an island of the 

 same name. 



Page 22. i. Serapistempel, "Serapis was the Roman name of a 

 deity of Egyptian origin, whose worship was officially promoted under the 

 Ptolemies and was introduced into Greece and Rome." 



3. v. Chr. See "abbreviations," page 162. 



Page 23. i. Capri, an island in the Mediterranean, at the entrance 

 of the bay of Naples. 



Page 24. i. St. Helena, an island in the south Atlantic, 1,200 

 miles west of Africa. 



2. Bonininseln, Benin (or Uninhabited} Islands, in the Pacific ocean, 

 500 miles south of Japan. 



Page 27. I. im grossen Stil, in a large way. 



z. vorlaufig, at present '; i.e. from the present evidence. 



3. eine . . . Uberlagerung, one of the most beautiful cases of unconform- 

 able superimposition. 



4. Saalfeld, a town in the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, south of Weimar. 



Page 29. z. Jura, a chain of mountains in eastern France and 

 western and northern Switzerland. 



2. Basel, the chief city of the half-canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland. 



3. Solothurn, capital of the Swiss canton, Solothurn. 



Page 30. i. Helgoland, an island in the North Sea belonging to 

 Prussia. It consists, really, of two islets, the " Rock Island," distinguished 

 by steep, red cliffs, and the " Dune," or " Sand Island," east of Rock Island. 

 Rock Island is divided into a lower town, Unterland, and an upper town, 

 Oberland, on the cliff, connected with the lower town by wooden stairs. 



Page 31. i. in halbschematischer Weise, half diagrammaticaUy. 



2. Dune, Dune, or Sand Island, see page 30, note I. 



3. Unterland, lower town, see page 30, note i. 



Page 34. i. Unterlande, see page 30, note i. 

 2. Es kommt dazu, dass, moreover. 



Page 35. i. lost und leckt, dissolves and wears away; lecken 

 signifies, lit., to lick, lap, hence : leckt an den Felsen = " laps on the rocks," 

 i.e. wears them away by lapping. 



