"Which" implies that _all_ the
villages in the country had been destroyed, whereas the country
had been only (see above) "_half_ unpeopled."

18. "Though this great king never permitted any pastime to interfere
with the duties of state, which he considered to be _superior to_ (54)
_all other claims and of paramount importance_, and (_a_) (37) kept
himself so far under control that he allowed no one pursuit or
amusement to run to any excess, yet he _took_ (54) _great pleasure in_
the chase, _of which he was_ (_b_) (2) _excessively_ (54) _fond_, and
for the purposes of which he created several _large_ parks _of
considerable_ (54) _magnitude_."

(_a_) Either repeat "though," or else strikeout the first
"though" and begin a new sentence after "excess." (_b_) Point out
the contradiction between "excessively" and what precedes.

19. "To inundate (_a_) (11) their land, to man their ships, to leave
their country, with all its miracles of art and industry, its cities,
its villas, and its (_b_) (11) pastures buried under the waves (_c_)
(11); to bear to a distant climate their (_d_) (11) faith and their
old (_e_) (11) liberties; to establish, with auspices _that_(10 _a)
might perhaps be happier_, the new (_f_) (11) _constitution of their
commonwealth_, in a (_g_) (11) foreign and strange (_h_) (11) land, in
the Spice Islands of the Eastern Seas, (38) were the plans which they
had the spirit to form."

(_a_) Introduce "dykes." (_b_) Introduce something _peculiar_ to
the Dutch, _e.g._ "canals," "tulip gardens." (_c_) "of the German
Ocean." (_d_) The Dutch were Calvinists. (_e_) The country was in
old times "Batavia," so that "Batavian" would be a fit epithet to
denote what the Dutch had inherited from their forefathers. (_f_)
"Stadthaus," the German for "town-hall." (_g_) "other stars."
(_h_) "strange vegetation."

20. "During twenty years of unexampled prosperity, _during_ (_a_)
_which_ the wealth of the nation had shot (14 _a_) _up and extended
its branches_ on every side, and the funds _had_ (14 _a_) _soared_ to
a higher point than had been ever attained before, (_b_) (15)
speculation had become general."

(_a_) Omit. (_b_) Begin a new sentence: "This, _or_ Prosperity,
had increased the taste for speculation."

21. "At that time (_a_) (16) a mere narrow-minded pedant (for he
deserves no better name) had been set up by the literary world as a
great au