NOTES. ! 5 9 



3. o 01 , 88, read : 88 centimetres. 



4. eat a trois : is one of three (single-acting cylinders). 



5. organes moteurs : driving, motive parts. 



6. enroule's en serpentin : twisted into a coil. 



XXIX. LE PAVAGE EN BOIS. 



1. Landes: a department in the southwest of France, area 3490 

 square miles. In the north it is occupied by heaths (landes) whence its 

 name. 



2. rendus a pied d'oeuvre : delivered on the ground. 



3. les voies mode*re*ment passageres : moderately traveled roads. 



XXX. BOUEE SONORE AUTOMATIQUE. 

 (Automatic sounding-buoy.) 



1. Gironde : an estuary of western France, formed by the union of 

 the Garonne and Dordogne. 



2. La Rochelle : a fortified seaport of France, on the Atlantic, nearly 

 mid-way between Nantes and Bordeaux. 



3. dont il est solidaire : of which it is a solid part. 



XXXII. LE BASSIN DE PATINAGE "LE POLE NORD" A PARIS. 



1. Plaza de Toros (bull-ring) at Madrid, stands outside the monu- 

 mental gate of the Alcala Str., one of the finest in Europe. It is a 

 large amphitheatre, nearly, if not quite, circular. Its capacity is 18,000 

 people. The bull-fights are held there. 



2. Casino de Paris : a fashionable club-house. 



3. 4. 1'une d'al!6e, 1'autre de retour : the one for supply and the 

 other for return. 



5. 9, 5 kil., read : neuf kilos et cinq dixiemes or neuf kilos et demi. 



6. o, read : zero. 



XXXIV. LlSTE DES CORPS SIMPLES. 



1. partagle : (synthesis is not yet so far) advanced. 



2. au premier jour : any day. 



XXXV. MACHINES A VAPEUR. 



1. tiennent tant a : depend as much upon. 



2. a tour de rdle : alternately, one by one. 



