[260] 1. =Hogue.= Cape La Hogue, on the east side of the same peninsula
as Cape La Hague, was the scene, in 1692, of the defeat of the French by
the united English and Dutch fleets.
[261] 5. =Saint Malo on the Rance=; a town on a small island near the
shore of France. The entrance to its fine harbor is very narrow and
filled with rocks. At high tide there is forty-five to fifty feet of
water, but at low tide this channel is dry.
[262] 30. =Plymouth Sound.= Plymouth is on the southwestern coast of
England.
[263] 43. =Pressed=; forced into military or naval service.
[264] 43. =Tourville=; the famous French admiral, who commanded at La
Hogue.
[265] 44. =Croisickese=; La Croisic, a small fishing village near the
mouth of the Loire, which Browning often visited.