[Footnote Gg:  A vast extent of marsh so called near the lake of Neuf-chatel.]

[Footnote Hh:  This, as may be supposed, was written before France became the seat of war.]

[Footnote Ii:  An insect so called, which emits a short, melancholy cry, heard, at the close of the summer evenings, on the banks of the Loire.]

[Footnote Jj:  The river Loiret, which has the honour of giving name to a department, rises out of the earth at a place, called La Source, a league and a half south-east of Orleans, and taking at once the character of a considerable stream, winds under a most delicious bank on its left, with a flat country of meadows, woods, and vineyards on its right, till it falls into the Loire about three or four leagues below Orleans.  The hand of false taste has committed on its banks those outrages which the Abbe de Lille so pathetically deprecates in those charming verses descriptive of the Seine, visiting in secret the retreat of his friend Watelet.  Much as the Loiret, in its short course, suffers from injudicious ornament, yet are there spots to be found upon its banks as soothing as meditation could wish for:  the curious traveller may meet with some of them where it loses itself among the mills in the neighbourhood of the villa called La Fontaine.  The walks of La Source, where it takes its rise, may, in the eyes of some people, derive an additional interest from the recollection that they were the retreat of Bolingbroke during his exile, and that here it was that his philosophical works were chiefly composed.  The inscriptions, of which he speaks in one of his letters to Swift descriptive of this spot, are not, I believe, now extant.  The gardens have been modelled within these twenty years according to a plan evidently not dictated by the taste of the friend of Pope.]

[Footnote Kk:  The duties upon many parts of the French rivers were so exorbitant that the poorer people, deprived of the benefit of water carriage, were obliged to transport their goods by land.]

[Footnote Ll: 

         —­And, at his heels,
  Leash’d in like hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire,
  Crouch for employment.]

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APPENDIX II

The following is Wordsworth’s Itinerary of the Tour, taken by him and his friend Jones, which gave rise to ‘Descriptive Sketches’.

July 13.  Calais. 14.  Ardres. 17.  Peronne. 18.  Village near Coucy. 19.  Soissons. 20.  Chateau Thierry. 21.  Sezanne. 22.  Village near Troyes. 23.  Bar-le-Duc. 24.  Chatillon-sur-Seine. 26.  Nuits. 27.  Chalons. 28.  Chalons. 29.  On the Saone. 30.  Lyons. 31.  Condrieu.