Date : Of the year

13. le Cockerill : a steamboat named after the f ounder of the great steel and iron works

at Seraing,near Liège. yille d'Agrippa :

Cologne, in Latin Coîonia Agrippina, Agrippa established the Ubii hère in 38 B.c.

Agrippina, the daughter of Germanlcus and mother of Nero, was bom hère, and in 51 A.D., the Roman colony planted hère was named, in her honor, Colonia Agrippina.

4, 3. Rubens: the celebrated Flemish pain ter, lived 1 577-1 640.

8. Sainte-Ursule: Saint Ursula was a princess of Great Britain. She and her companions were slain by the Huns, near Cologne, in 452.

6, 22. Mieux vaut : " It is better."

7, 2 1 . Notre-Dame de Paris : This f amous cathedral in Paris was built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. 25. The cathedral of Strasburg was begun in the tenth

century and finished in the fifteenth. Its spire is 466 feet in height.

8, 8. n'a pas — que : " no sooner bas — than."

9, 3. Verbe : Latin verbum^ i.e., the Word of God.

22. Rien : An ellipsis of this kind is cornmon in French. "There is nothing," "I never saw anything."

IO9 6. picard ou tourangeau : '' as in Picardy or in Touraine."