Note 118b — Chapter XXXVII
Reading edition
No one who has ever read the work of this Abbé would ever think of citing it as a serious authority. It is entitled, L’histoire des Cantabres par l’Abbé d’Iharce de Bidassouet. Paris, 1825. Basque, according to the author, was the primæval language; Noah being still the Basque for wine is an etymological record of the patriarch’s unhappy inebriety!