Note 697 — Chapter XIII

‘Jam unum milliare ab urbe aberramus, cum obviam prodiit nuntius qui ingressum interdiceret.’—Ibid. The Roman mile is doubtless meant, which was about 1,614 yards (1,472 mètres, or about one kilomètre and a half). At this distance from Geneva the messenger met the deputation, at Sécheron, where the hôtel d’Angleterre formerly stood, near the country seats Bartholony and Paccard. According to the first arrangement the reformers were to have stopped at a distance of about four miles (or about six kilomètres), probably near the road called du Saugy, leading to Genthod.