Note 719 — BOOK IV[649]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Adolphe Jules César Auguste Dureau de La Malle (1777-1857), author of a number of learned works and some poems, and a considerable authority on the geography and statistics of the nations of antiquity. In the year in which the above letter was written he published his Géographie physique de la Méditerranée et de la mer Noire. He was admitted in 1818 to the Academy of Inscriptions, and in 1840 published his greatest work, the Économie politique des Romains.—T.