We have at p. 35, “_Questo piano è molto_ cavo,” which is nonsense, but is explained by reference to the French (G. T.) “_Voz di qu’il est celle plaingne mout_ chaue” (_chaude_). The bread in Kerman is bitter, says the G. T. “_por ce que l’eive hi est_ amer,” because the water there is bitter. The Crusca mistakes the last word and renders (p. 40) “_e questi è per lo_ mare _che vi viene_.” “_Sachiés de voir qe_ endementiers,” know for a truth that whilst——, by some misunderstanding of the last word becomes (p. 129) “_Sappiate di vero_ sanza mentire.” “_Mès de sel_ font-il monoie”—“They make money of salt,” becomes (p. 168) “_ma fannole_ da loro,” _sel_ being taken for a pronoun, whilst in another place _sel_ is transferred bodily without translation. “_Chevoil_,” “hair” of the old French, appears in the Tuscan (p. 20) as _cavagli_, “horses.”—“_La Grant Provence_ Jereraus,” the great general province, appears (p. 68) as a province whose proper name is _Ienaraus_. In describing Kúblái’s expedition against Mien or Burma, Polo has a story of his calling on the Jugglers at his court to undertake the job, promising them a Captain and other help, “_Cheveitain et aide_.” This has fairly puzzled the Tuscan, who converts these (p. 186) into two Tartar tribes, “_quegli d’_Aide _e quegli di_ Caveità.” So also we have _lievre_ for hare transferred without change; _lait_, milk, appearing as _laido_ instead of _latte_; _très_, rendered as “three”; _bue_, “mud,” Italianised as _buoi_, “oxen,” and so forth. Finally, in various places when Polo is explaining Oriental terms we find in the Tuscan MS. “_cioè a dire in_ Francesco.” The blunders mentioned are intelligible enough as in a version _from the French_; but in the description of the Indian pearl-fishery we have a startling one not so easy to account for. The French says, “the divers gather the sea-oysters (_hostrige de Mer_), and in these the pearls are found.” This appears in the Tuscan in the extraordinary form that the divers catch those fishes called _Herrings_ (Aringhe), and in those Herrings are found the Pearls! [5] As examples of these Italianisms: “_Et ont del_ olio _de la lanpe dou_ sepolchro _de Crist_”; “_L’Angel ven en vision pour mesajes de Deu à un_ Veschevo _qe mout estoient home de_ sante vite”; “_E certes il estoit bien_ beizongno”; “_ne trop caut ne trop_ fredo”; “_la_ crense” (_credenza_); “remort” for noise (_rumore_); “inverno”; “jorno”; “dementiqué” (_dimenticato_); “enferme” for sickly; “leign” (_legno_); “devisce” (_dovizia_); “ammalaide” (_ammalato_), etc. etc. Professor Bianconi points out that there are also traces of _Venetian_ dialect, as _Pare_ for _père_; _Mojer_ for wife; _Zabater_, cobbler; _cazaor_, huntsman, etc.