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66 6 Le temps d'inspecter ... et l'intrépide: transl. 'only a moment to inspect ... and the bold. 66 7 écrire deux mots: = écrire un mot 'to write a line. 66 10 la route de Blidah: 'the Blidah road. Blidah is a city about twenty five miles southwest of Algiers. On de cf. note to 1 5.
37 9 Machine, stop! Stop in machine, stop! is an imperative taken directly from the English. 37 10 plus rien: cf. notes to 13 1 and 4 23 Rien que: cf. 1 17. 37 19 Alger la blanche: 'Algiers, capital of Algeria, about 500 miles from Marseilles. For the epithet blanche, see next note.
37 22 Meudon: a town on the Seine between Paris and Versailles. The white houses of Algiers sloping towards the sea look like the washing of a laundress spread out on the grassy hill which at Meudon descends to the Seine.
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