mettre la main sur, corne upon, discover

3. archegosaurus (from Greek words meaning "beginner" and "reptile"), a fossile animal, so named because it was believed to hâve been the beginning of reptilian life. It is supposed by some to be a Connecting link between reptiles and fishes.

4. Saarbruck, German Saarbrticken, a town of Rhenish Prussia, in western Germany, on the Saar. It is about sixty miles northwest of Strasburg, and has been the center of a very important coal-mining district.

5. Strasbourg, Strasburg (German Strassburg), important fortified

city of western Germany, noted for its cathedral. Before the Franco- German war of 1870-71 it had belonged for some time to France. Pagre 86. — 1. devaient vivre, must hâve lived.

2. Ferdinand le Catholique (1452-15 16). The surname of "the Catholic" was given to Ferdinand V., king of Spain. After his marriage to the infanta Isabella in 1469, there followed, under the joint rule of the two sovereigns, a period of marked prosperity and grandeur.