P. 4&-71.] NOTES 167 



Page 49. i. Poseidon, see page 41, note i. 



Page 51. i. Lbssgebieten, ioesstracts, " quaternary deposits (chiefly 

 along rivers) of fine yellowish clay or loam, or of very fine sand, of angular 

 particles.' ' 



2. Latent, laterite, "a red, ferruginous, porous clay covering vast areas 

 in some tropical countries." 



Page 52. i. Kurisches Haff, a fresh water lagoon, about 60 miles 

 long, north of the province of East Prussia. It is separated from the Baltic 

 by sand-dunes (' Kurische Nehrung' 1 } and connected with it by the ' Memel 

 Deeps,' a channel hardly 1000 ft. wide. 



2. Memel, a seaport in the province of East Prussia, at the entrance of 

 the Kurisches Haff. 



3. Nehrung, a long, narrow strip of land separating a Haff from the 

 sea. Use same word. 



4. heben sich ab, lit., raise themselves off, stand out in relief. 



5. Dunenwall, dune-wall ; it refers to Sandgebirge above, 



Page 57. i. Helgoland, see page 30, note i. 

 2. wie ihn, such as. 



Page 59. i. Castel d'Uovo, a fort and castle on a small, rocky 

 island in close proximity to Naples. The name is due to its oval shape. 



2. Bocca piccola, little bay ; lit., little mouth. 



3. Rucken des Posilipo, a ridge southwest of Naples. 



4. Mergellina, a street in Naples on the slopes of the Posilipo facing 

 the sea. 



5. Schloss der Donna Anna, castle of Donna Anna, so called after 

 Donna Anna Carafa, wife of the viceroy Duke of Medina, for whom it was 

 begun in the seventeenth century, but never completed. 



Page 65. i. besprochen, behandelt, see page 3, note 2. 

 2. uberhaupt, at all. 



Page 66. i. Lebewesen, lit., animated being ; trans., organism. 



Page 69. i. vom . . . aus, aus is an adverb here, intensifying the 

 force of the preposition von. Lit., " from the littoral benthos out " (or forth) 

 i.e. going forth from the littoral bentiios, starting from, etc. Cf. page 6, note i. 



Page 70. i. Anpassungserscheinungen, phenomena of adaptation. 

 Page 71. i. sich abbeben, see page 52, note 4. 



