[Footnote f: In 1790, most of what could be shaken in the order of European, and especially of French society and government, _was_ shaken and changed. By the new constitution of 1790, to which the French king took an oath of fidelity, his power was reduced to a shadow, and two years later France became a Republic. "We crossed at the time," wrote Wordsworth to his sister, "when the whole nation was mad with joy in consequence of the Revolution." Ed.] [Footnote g: "We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief, with about twenty pounds a-piece in our pockets." W. W. ('Autobiographical Memoranda.)--Ed.] [Footnote h: July 14, 1790. "We crossed from Dover and landed at Calais, on the eve of the day when the King was to swear fidelity to the new constitution: an event which was solemnised with due pomp at Calais." W. W. ('Autobiographical Memoranda.') See also the sonnet "dedicated to National Independence and Liberty," vol. ii. p. 332. beginning, 'Jones! as from Calais southward you and I, and compare the human nature seeming born again' of 'The Prelude', book vi. I, 341, with "the pomp of a too-credulous day" and the "homeless sound of joy" of the sonnet.--Ed.] [Footnote i: They went by Ardres, Péronne, Soissons, Château Thierry, Sézanne, Bar le Duc, Châtillon-sur-Seine, Nuits, to Châlons-sur-Saône; and thence sailed down to Lyons. See Fenwick note to 'Stray Pleasures' (vol. iv.) "The town of Châlons, where my friend Jones and I halted a day, when we crossed France, so far on foot. There we embarqued, and floated down to Lyons." Ed.] [Footnote k: Compare 'Descriptive Sketches', vol. i. p 40: 'Or where her pathways straggle as they please By lonely farms and secret villages.' Ed.] [Footnote m: "Her road elms rustling thin above my head." (See 'Descriptive Sketches', vol. i. pp. 39, 40, and compare the two passages in detail.)--Ed.] [Footnote n: On the 29th July 1790.--Ed.] [Footnote o: They were at Lyons on the 30th July.--Ed.] [Footnote p: They reached the Chartreuse on the 4th of August, and spent two days there "contemplating, with increasing pleasure," says Wordsworth, "its wonderful scenery."--Ed.] [Footnote q: The forest of St. Bruno, near the Chartreuse.--Ed.] [Footnote r: "Names of rivers at the Chartreuse."--W. W. 1793. They are called in 'Descriptive Sketches', vol. i. p. 41, "the mystic streams of Life and Death."--Ed.] [Footnote s: "Name of one of the vallies of the Chartreuse."--W. W. 1793.] [Footnote t: "Alluding to crosses seen on the spiry rocks of the Chartreuse, which have every appearance of being inaccessible."--W. W. 1793.] [Footnote u: It extended from July 13 to September 29. See the detailed Itinerary, vol. i. p. 332, and Wordsworth's letter to his sister, from Keswill, describing the trip.--Ed.]