1 68 NOTES. [P. 72-101. 



Page 72. I. Sind doch. The verb is sometimes placed first in the 

 sentence for the purpose of emphasizing the assertion. In such a case, it 

 is generally followed by "doch " or "ja." Translate doch here by indeed. 



2. darauf angewiesen. Anweisen signifies to point out, assign, direct; 

 followed by the preposition auf it means "to direct to" "assign to" Lit., 

 " are directed only to this, to follow passively," etc. Trans., cannot but 

 follow, etc. 



Page 74. i. Das Licht war . . . worden. Lit, " the light on its 

 path of 100 meters from the surface to the marble-plate and (reflected 

 from this) penetrating again to the eye had, therefore, been absorbed." 

 Render freely thus : the light had, therefore, been absorbed on its path of 

 too meters from the surface to the marble-plate and back again. 



2. Villafranca, Italian for Villef ranche, a town on the southern coast 

 of France, three miles from Nice. 



Page 78. i. Latomien, Greek for stone-quarries. These stone- 

 quarries are called " ill-famed," because the captives taken during the 

 Athenian invasion of Sicily, 414 B. C., were imprisoned here. 



2. eingesenkt, excavated. 



Page 82. x. Farbr, Faroe Islands, a group of islands lying between 

 the Shetland islands and Iceland. 



2. Shoal Point, on N.W. coast of Spitzbergen. 



Page 89. i. Pernambuco, a seaport in Brazil. 



Page 94. i. Spitzbergen, a group of islands in the Arctic ocean, 

 north of Norway. 



Page 95. x. planmassig, -massig, in composition, has the meaning 

 of in conformity to ; hence, planmassig = in conformity to a plan, system- 

 atically ; (cf. z-weckma ssig = " in conformity to the purpose," "appro- 

 priate " ). 



2. Mulder, as intimated by the author, use the same word without trans- 

 lating. 



3. Auftrieb, see note 2. The force of the word can be readily seen, it 

 being applied to the small organisms floating (cf. Auftrieb = "buoyancy") 

 on the surface of the sea. 



Page 96. i. Helgoland, see page 3, note I. 



Page 101. i. Ramesveram, Rameswaram, an island between India 

 and Ceylon. 



