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[Footnote 86: #demi-lieue#. As now used the lieue is colloquially 4
kilometres, or 2-1/2 miles. The old lieue was of 4,444 metres, or not
quite 3 miles, and there is also a lieue marine of 5,555 metres, or 3
nautical miles. Say: hardly a mile and a half.]
[Footnote 87: #Si#, Of course, or Certainly, here.]