Note 234 — Chapter VIII · (continued 3)

The late Mr. Henley was at one time much interested in this point, and consulted me about it. But I could tell him nothing; and I do not know whether he ever satisfied himself on the subject. Lesage is said (though I am not sure that the evidence goes beyond on dit) to have revised the work of Pétis de La Croix in the Days; and some of his own certainly corresponds to it.