18. Gael. "The Scottish Highlander calls himself, Gael, or Gaul, and
terms the Lowlanders Sassenach, or Saxons" (Scott).
22. Wildering. Bewildering. See on i. 274 above. For winded, see on i.
500.
32. Bursting through. That is, as it burst through--"a piece of loose
writing" (Taylor).