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terres, country districts

Page 4. — I. du bois et des bois ; the play on words is like that in the English wood and woods.

2. Tout cela vient pêle-mêle, ail thaï groivs helter-skelter.

3. quelle y était la force mutuelle des partis, u>hat the strength of the varions parties ivas there.

Pagre 0. — I. The Iroquois confederacy was made up of five tribes, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca, to which later was joined the Tuscarora. During the Révolution, a part of the nation which espoused the British cause migrated under Brant to Canada. In 1820 the Oneida removed to Wisconsin. At the présent time there are on réservations in Xew York about 5000 Iroquois in a fairly prosperous condition.

2. Taken from a letter to his sister-in-law, Madame la baronne de Tocqueville, dated at Batavia, X. Y., July 25, 1S31.

3. Vous saurez donc, the future with imperative force, ktiow, then.

4. il manquait du premier sou pour vivre, he didn't hâve a penny to live on.

5. son affaire, ivhat he ivas looking for ; zohat he tvanted.

6. Lake Oneida, northeast of Syracuse in central New York, is a large body of water, 20 miles long and from 4 to 7 miles wide.

Page 6. — I. à la bêche, 7vith the grub hoe.

2. les recherches des sociétés policées, the refinements of civilized Society.

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