Seine; cf. page 65, note

3. Loire, the largest river of France, rising in the southeastern portion, and flowing in a northwestern and western direction through the centre of the country to the Atlantic Océan. Its total length is over 600 miles, and it is navigable 450 miles from its mouth.

4. Vosges, a range of mountains situated partly in northeastern France and partly in southwestern Germany.

5. M. Elie de Beaumont (1 798-1874), French geologist, born at Caen (in north western France); became professor of geology at the Collège de France in 1832.

Page 89. — 1. M. Burat (1 809-1 883), a French engineer and geologist, who made a spécial study of the coal industry, and published valuable monographs dealing with coal-mines.

Page 90. — 1. inférieur à, lozver than.

2. Saint-Michel, a small bay off the northwest coast of France.

Page 91. — 1. Leibnitz (1646-1716), famous German philosopher and savant, born at Leipsic.

2. Pompéi et Herculanum, cities in southern Italy near Naples, destroyed by the great éruption of Vesuvius in 79 a.d.

3. lépidodendrons, a genus of fossil trees of the carboniferous âge in geology, believed to hâve contributed largely to the formation of coal. The name cornes from Greek words meaning "scale tree," as the surface of the tree was marked with scale-shaped spaces or scars, produced by the séparation of the leafstalks.

4. lycopodiacées, lycopodiacea-, an order of cryptogamous (with no proper flowers) plants, low and usually of moss-like aspect, with evergreen leaves.