Mirèio/Notes to Canto X
NOTES TO CANTO X.
1 Durancolo: this name is giren to the canals derived from the Durance.
2 Tartanes, the name of a small trading-craft common in the Mediterranean.
3 4 5 Birds common in Camargue. The Provençal name Cambet designates several birds of the order of the echassiers, chiefly the large red-legged chevalier, Scolopax celidrix, and the small red-legged chevalier, Tringa gambetta. The hern is the Ardea nyclicorax of Linnæus.
6 The Pancratian maritimus.
7 8 Atriplex porlulacoïdes and Phylleria latifolia, a large shrub of the jessamine family.
9 Campoustello, in the middle ages Campus Stellæ, once the capital of Gallicia, in Spain, now a town of thirty thousand inhabitants, with a fine old cathedral, containing the tomb of St. James the Major, patron saint of Spain.