It consists of many Confederations, and out of each, PRO and CONTRA, spring many.

Like the Lernean Hydra, or even Hydras in a plural condition.

A many-headed dog: and how many whelps it had,--I cannot give even the cipher of them, or I would! One whelp Confederation, that of Cracow, is distinguished by having frequently or generally been "drunk;" and of course its procedures had often a vinous character.

[In HERMANN (v.

431-448); and especially in RULHIERE (ii.
livre 8 et seq.), details in superabundance.] I fancy to have read somewhere that the number of them was one hundred and twenty-five.