Ιχχχι language, bèfides his attention never to change any bf the antient wofds,he accompanies them with an explanation whenever he thinks them not fuffici ently intelligible 'His sieal in this refpedt is more praifeworihy ihan his intelligence. 'It is furprifing that, after having publifhed feveral of our old au thors, he was not better acquainted with their lan guage, and that he ihould add fuch unnatural ex* planations and etymologies. As the chronology of Froiflart was fometimes defective, Sauvage has reformed it in thofe places which appeared to him moll faulty. He has often recalled to the reader's memory diftant paflkges. in order to reconcile them, or to ihew their contradiction; or, in fhort, to demonilrate the connexion of certain fafts with each other ; but his attempts in this part are fcarcely -Worth mentioning.1 Some genealogies, which regard perfons of whom T?roiflart fpeaks, as well as fome remarks on divers places, the pofition of which he attempts to fix, by relating the different names they are called by, lhew that the editor had not abfolutely negle&ed thefe two objefts. We mufl not be furprized that fo many foreign names fh'ould not always be exa&iy · correa: ; befides their having been changed fince that time, we ihould not impute as blame, either to •« the author or editor, the faults of copyifts who have incorrectly read them, and who have written them according to the pronunciation or orthography of their language and age ; for, not only are the names read in as many different ways as there-are manufcriptSjbut they continually vary in thefameMS. VOJL.I. f as