un rendez-vous de chasse, a hunter's cabin

Page 18. — I. Q^yit^lorsqîie.

2. Erié, Erie, population 65,000, county-seat of Erie county, Pa. The old French fort. Presque Ile, built in 1753 and captured by the British in 1760, was situated on the site of Erie. It was at Erie also that Perry built and equipped his fleet.

3. De Tocqueville is slightly in error, for the Battle of Lake Erie was fought September 10, 1813, and otî Put-in-Bay, not Middle Sister island. The American fleet under Perry gained a complète victory over the British in command of Barclay, one of Nelson's captains. This defeat gave the United States undisputed control of the Upper Lakes, and insured the recapture of Détroit and the invasion of Canada by General Harrison.

4. Fort Malden was a British post near the présent site of Amherstburg on the Détroit River, six miles above Lake Erie.

5. Caen and Evreux are cities of Normandy lying on the road between Paris and the estate of the de Tocqueville family.

6. The battle of Waterloo was fought June 18, 181 5, about two miles from the Belgian village of the same name. The French forces numbered 125,000, those of the Allies more than 200,000. The resuit of the battle was a complète annihilation of the power of Napoléon, and his exile to St. Helena followed a few months later.

Page 19. — I. Détroit, population 400,000. The city was not founded by the Jesuits in 17 10, as de Tocqueville says, but by Sieur de la Mothe Cadillac in 1701. The settlement was at flrst called

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Fort Pontchartrain, and Cadillac was governor for a number of years.

2. s'il s'agit de gagner un dollar, ;/ // is a question of making a dollar.

Page 20, — r. De Tocqueville means that they had to resort to strategy to obtain that information which ojjen avowal of their plans and wishes had not secured for them.

2. The first settlement in what is now Michigan was made by the French as early as 1641. Upon the overthrow of the French povver in Canada in 1759, the région passed into the control of the British, and after the Révolution, by the Ordinance of 1787, became a part of the Northwest Territory. In 1805 it was set off into a territory by itself, with its capital at Détroit. Admitted into the Union as a state in 1837.

3. Major John Biddle (i 789-1859), served as an ofificer in the War of 181 2, and later as paymaster in the regular army ; came to Détroit in 1822, where he was for some years Indian agent and register of the land office; delegate to Congress from Michigan territory, 1829-1831.

Page 21. — I. Pontiac, a town of 12,000 inhabitants, 26 miles northwest of Détroit.

2. d'assez beaux établissements, to be construed as the logical subject of il a été fondé, although «7, impersonal, requires a singular verb.

Page 22. — i. The word pionnier, from which cornes our /;> neer, is a miiitary term in its origin, used to designate those members of an army who précède the main body, preparing the roads, etc.

Page 25. — i. constitution, <57/z7^, /;z<7i<?-«/.

2. fièvre de bois, what the Michigan pioneers used to call "fever and ague."

3. Il a fait cet effort . . . depuis des années, one day he began it, he has kept it up for years.

Page 26. — I. Concentré, c^j^r^^a'.