il n'était cruère ; lit it was not veiy ; it was hardly

Guère was formerly synonymoos of beaucoup.

Tobolsk, a town of Asiatic Russia, on the ri^ht bank of the river Irtisch, near its confluence with the Tobol. The Russians form one quarter of the, population, another quarter is formed by Tartars. Little manufacturing activité, but important forwarding trade. Olimate healthy. Onginally this town was a mère hamlet, built in 1587 ; it was bumt down in 1643, and upon the site rose the présent town.

16. toutes ses idées se portèrent sur, ahe ooncentrated ail her ideas upon. Note the reflexive form.