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est assez grande pour y souffrir deux establissemens.’— Id., p. 
462. 
P. 101. War with the Dutch.— Vide Colbert’s letter to M. de la 
Haye, op. tit., p. 549 : ‘ Vous apprendrez par la relation cy-jointe les 
grandes conquestes du Roy sur les Hollandois. Sa Majeste leur a 
declare la guerre en fevrier [1672], et a marche a la teste de 120,000 
hommes en quartre armees contre eux, le 4 may. Le 2 juin, le roi 
a attaque quatre places en mesme temps, sgavoir : Orsoi, Rheinberg, 
Wesel et Burick; il les a prises toutes quatre a discretion en deux 
jours de temps.’ 
P. 103. The Sargasso Sea.—Vide Leguafs Voyage, op. tit., 
p. 301, note. 
P. 103. King of Portugal relegated, to La Terceira.—This was 
Alphonse VI., son of John IV. of Portugal, who succeeded to the 
throne in 1656. In 1667 this unfortunate prince was interned in the 
Island of Terceira for eight years till 1675, then brought back to 
Cintra, where he died in 1683, aged 41 years. Vide Biographie 
Universelle. 
P. 104. Fire of St. Elmo in the Scupper-holes.— Vide Note in Hakluyt 
Edition of Francois Leguat. 
P. 106. Sands of Olonne.—Olonne is some distance north of La 
Rochelle. The Sables d’Olonne have become the site of a fashion¬ 
able watering-place. 
P. 106. The Palisse.—The Rade de la Palisse is shown on con¬ 
temporary maps situated between the Isle de Re and the mainland 
immediately west of La Rochelle. 
P. 106. L’Arpenti.—La Repentie was the landing-place on the 
mainland from the Road of La Palisse and of the passage from lie 
de Re. It is at some little distance from the modern Port de la 
Palisse, which is destined to compete, it is said, with Pauillac and 
St. Nazaire. 
P. 106. Permission by M. de la Reynie.—M. Gabriel Nicolas de La 
Reynie, President de la senechausse et siege presidial de Guienne 
en aout 1646, puis d’Angouleme ; maitre des requetes 1661, 
Lieutenant General de Police a Paris, 1667. There are several 
communications to M. de La Reynie in Colbert’s letters. M. Pierre 
Clement points out that ‘ la recherche des libellists fut de tout temps 
une des grandes occupations de La Reynie.’ — Op. tit., vol. vi. 
pp. 28, 47, notes. Cf. idem, vol. iii. p. 321, note 2, and vol. vi .passim. 
He died at 84 years of age. Vide Etude sur la Police sous Louis 
XIV. 
