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alors même qu'elle, even ivhen she

3. cette demeure forme, etc., this dwelUng forms a little zuorld by itself.

Pagre 29. — i. Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), one of our most célébrât ed American financiers, was a native of Switzerland wlio came to America in 1780; from 1793 to 1801 he was a member of Congress from Pennsylvania; iSoi to 181 3 Secretary of the Treasury; 1816 to 1823 Minister to France, and 1826-27 Minister to England; in 1828 retired to private life and settled in New York where he devoted himself to business, éducation, and the study of ethnol-

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