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ne s'en est pas tenu, did not restrict himself

Pagre 159. — i. ce qui nous donne à penser, afact which leads us

to think. .

2. Pfeffikon, or IJaffikon, a small lake not far from the city of Zurich.

Page 160. — i. Abyssins, Abyssinians. The Abyssinia of the présent day is a country of eastern Africa whose limits are not very clearly defined.

2. Samoyèdes, Samoyeds, a people of northern Russia, both in Europe and Asia.

3. le docteur Dowler, an American physician, who was born in Virginia in 1797, and lived later in New Orléans. Note the use of the definite article before a title.

Page 161. — 1. la Tinière, at the eastern extremity of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

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