and to do was designated, even the questions and replies she was to
make to the authorities on the way."

[68] One French league equals approximately 4 km. 70,000 square
leagues then equal 1,120,000 km.2, or 400,000 square miles or 11% of
the United States but 5 times the size of Great Britain. (SR.)

[69] Cf. in the "Correspondance" the letters dated at Schoenbrunn
near Vienna, during August and September, 1809, and especially:

the great number of letters and orders relating to the English
expeditions to Walcheren;
the letters to chief-judge Régnier and to the arch-chancellor
Cambacérès on expropriations for public benefit (Aug. 21, Sept. 7
and 29);
the letters and orders to M. de Champagny to treat with Austria (Aug.
19, and Sept. 10, 15, 18, 22, and 23);
the letters to Admirable Decrès, to despatch naval expeditions to the
colonies (Aug.17 and Sept. 26);
the letter to Mollien on the budget of expenditure (Aug. 8);
the letter to Clarke on the statement of guns in store throughout the
empire (Sept. 14).
Other letters, ordering the preparation of two treatises on military
art (Oct. 1), two works on the history and encroachments of the Holy
See (Oct. 3), prohibiting conferences at Saint-Sulpice (Sept. 15),
and forbidding priests to preach outside the churches (Sept. 24).-
From Schoenbrunn, he watches the details of public works in France and
Italy; for instance, the letters to M. le Montalivet (Sept.30), to
send an auditor post to Parma, to have a dyke repaired at once, and
(Oct. 8) to hasten the building of several bridges and quays at