pirogues, 'pirogues,' native canoës hewn out of the

trunks of trees.

1. 20. pinques, ' pinks,' vessels of two or three hundred tons with

narrow sterns.

Page 200. 1. 25. ni littérature classique, ni littérature romantifnt. By classic literature Chateaubriand hère means literaturc

directly inspired by the Classics ; and by roman tic literature that form of writing which is subject to no rules of order or language, but is directed only by the inspiration of genius.

1. 39. Franklin et Fulton. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), the American patriot and statesman, was also the inventor of the lightning conductor. Fulton was the improve? of the steamship.

Page 202. 1. 4. Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third Président of the United States. He was twice elected, in 1801 and 1805. It was he who drew up the Déclaration of Independence in 1776.

1. 22. Brackenridge was an American orator and man of letters. Among his works are short sketches of Présidents Adams and Jefferson, and a history of the war of 1814 between Great Britain and the United States.

Page 203. 1. 2. Thomas Say "(1787-1834) was the author of two works : American Entomology and American Conchology.

1. 5. Wilson was a native of Paisley in Scotland. His American Orniihology is still regarded as a standard work.

1. 25. Caleb Williams is a philosophical novel by William Godwin (1756-1836), the novelist and apostle of sociahsm.

1. 27. Cooper. J. Fenimore Cooper (1768-1841), the author of The Last of the Mohicans and The Red Corsair.

1. 28. Washington Irving (1783-1859), the American author, was minister at Madrid, and his works are largely inspired by various résidences in Spain. Among them are The History of Ghristopher Columbus and The Chronicle of the Conquest of Qranada.

1. 30. créolisée, * colonialized.' A créole, in the proper sensé, is a native-born American colonist.

1. 38. Halleck (1795-1867) is an American writer of no very wide réputation. His chief work is Marco Botzaris, a poem which deals with an épisode of the Greek Révolution.

Page 204. 1. 6. V Atlantide, * America.' Atlantida is the country which, according to the traditions of the Ancients, lay outside and beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Some hâve considered the Canary Islands to be the relies of this land of tradition long since sunk beneath the sea. Others hold that the legend refers to the Continent of America.

Page 205. 1. 3. Que de part et cFautre on coure aux armes, * let there be a gênerai rush to arms.'