pour tout de bon, in dead carnest

3. Qu'un arbre renversé, etc., if a falle^t tree, a stream, or a marsh happened to corne in oîcr zuay.

4. l'art de le faire valoir par des prévenances et des soins, the

art of making this service more valuable by being polite and attentive.

IIO NOTES [P. 51-61

Page 51. — I. l'échelle était leny eTsêe,cond2ù'onszvercreversed. Pag-e 52. — l. d'un seul jet, u'it/i to-n'ering trunks.

2. What de Tocqueville hère says about the grandeur of the primitive forests of the Saginaw valley is amply confirmed in the accounts left by the pioneers. But it is a sad comment at this date to add that those handsome forests hâve been so ruthlessly eut down and wasted, that there is hardly a trace of them left.