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''Both sat down on the bench, under the clump of climbing plants, opposite the Chinese pavilion; Ursule waiting for some remark from the old man, and the old man reflecting much too long a time for an impatient girl. Finally, the result of their secret interview was the following letter.''

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 TO MADEMOISELLE SOPHIE SURVILLE

It is a real pleasure, my dear niece, to dedicate to you a book, the subject and details of which have gained the hard-earned approval of a young girl who, as yet, knows nothing of the world and does not compromise with any of the lofty principles of a pious education. You young girls are a formidable public; for you ought to be allowed to read only books that are as pure as your minds, and you are forbidden certain literature as you are prevented from seeing society such as it is. May not an author therefore take pride in having pleased you? God grant that fondness has not deceived you! Who can say? That future which, I trust, you may see, and which may no longer behold

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In entering Nemours, on the Paris side, one crosses the canal of the Loing, the banks of which make both rustic ramparts and picturesque walks for this pretty little town. Since 1830, several houses have, unfortunately, been built on this side of the bridge. If this species of suburb increases, the appearance of the town will lose its charming originality. But, in 1829, the sides of the way being clear, the postmaster, a big, stout man about sixty years of age, seated at the highest point of this bridge, could perfectly well, on a fine morning, embrace that which, in the terms of his profession, is called a highroad. The month of September was putting forth its treasures, the atmosphere burning above the grass and stones, no cloud disturbing the blue of the ether whose purity, everywhere intense, even on the horizon, told of the exceeding rarefaction of the air. So that Minoret-Levrault, as the postmaster was called, was obliged to make a screen (5)


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 of one hand to avoid being dazzled. Like a man provoked at waiting, he looked now at the delightful fields that spread to the right of the road, and where the aftermath was growing, now at the wood-covered hill which, on the left, stretches from Nemours to Bouron. In the valley of the Loing, where echoed the noises of the road, thrown back by the hill, he could hear the gallop of his own horses and the crack of his postilions’ whips. Could any but a postmaster grow impatient before a field full of Paul Potter cattle, under a Raphael sky, over a canal shaded by trees in Hobbema’s style? Anyone acquainted with Nemours knows that there nature is as beautiful as art, whose mission is to spiritualize her; there, the scenery holds ideas and rouses thought. But, at sight of Minoret-Levrault, an artist would have forsaken the view to sketch this bourgeois, so original did his very coarseness render him. Combine all the conditions of the brute, and you get Caliban, which certainly is a great thing. Where form predominates, sentiment disappears. The postmaster, living proof of this axiom, presented one of those countenances in which a thinker can with difficulty trace the mind beneath the violent complexion produced by a rude development of the flesh. His blue cloth cap, small peaked and ribbed like a melon, outlined a head whose large dimensions proved that Gall’s science has not yet attacked the subject of exceptions. The gray and almost glossy hair projecting beyond the cap would have told you that other causes than intellectual


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 this man, but terrible and apoplectic when he gave vent to it. Although violent and incapable of reflection, this man had done nothing to justify the sinister prophecies of his physiognomy. His postilions would say to those who quaked before the giant:

“Oh! he is not bad!”

The master of Nemours, to use an abbreviation employed in many countries, wore a bottle-green velvet shooting-jacket, green drill trousers with green stripes, an ample yellow mohair waistcoat, in the pocket of which could be seen a monstrous snuffbox outlined by a black circle. A big snuff-box for a snub nose, is a law almost without exception.

Minoret-Levrault, offspring of the Revolution and spectator of the Empire, had never mixed himself up with politics; as for his religious opinions, he had never set foot inside a church except to be married; as for his principles in private life, they existed in the Civil Code; all that was not forbidden or unattainable by the law he believed to be feasible. He had never read anything but the newspaper of the department of Seine-et-Oise, or a few instructions referring to his profession. He was considered to be a skilful farmer; but his knowledge was purely practical. Thus, with Minoret-Levrault, the mind did not belie the body. It was seldom, too, that he talked; and, before beginning to speak, he always took a pinch of snuff to give himself time to seek, not ideas, but words. As a talker, he would have struck one as a failure.


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 Considering that this species of trunkless and unintelligent elephant was named Minoret-Levrault, must one not admit with Sterne the occult power of names that sometimes mock and sometimes foretell character? In spite of his obvious incapacity, in thirty-six years he had with the help of the Revolution, acquired an income of thirty thousand francs, in fields, arable land, and forest. If Minoret, with an interest in the Nemours stage, and those running between Gâtinais and Paris, still worked, he was in this acting less through habit than for the sake of an only son for whom he wished to prepare a fine future. This son, who had become a gentleman—as the peasants termed it—had just finished reading for the bar, and when the courts re-opened, was to take the oath as lawyer’s licentiate. Monsieur and Madame Minoret-Levrault,—for, through this giant everyone discovered a wife without whom such a handsome fortune was impossible,—left their son free to choose a profession for himself: notary in Paris, attorney for the crown somewhere, receiver-general no matter where, exchange agent or postmaster. What whim could be denied, what calling above the aspirations of the son of a man of whom it was said from Montargis to Essonne that “Father Minoret cannot count his income.” This saying, four years before, had acquired further authority when, after having sold his inn, Minoret had built himself a magnificent house and stables by transferring the stage from the Grand’Rue to the harbor. This new establishment had cost two hundred


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 thousand francs, that the gossips for thirty miles round doubled. The Nemours stage requires a large number of horses, it goes toward Paris as far as Fontainebleau and runs beyond the Montargis and Montereau roads; on both sides the stage is slow, and the sands of the Montargis road warrant that chimerical third horse which is always paid for and never seen. So a man built like Minoret, as rich as Minoret, and at the head of such an establishment could call himself without antiphrasis, the master of Nemours. Although he had never given a thought to God or the devil, and was as practical a materialist as he was a practical farmer, practical egotist, and practical miser, Minoret had, up till then, enjoyed unmixed happiness, if one may consider a purely material life as happiness. A physiologist, beholding the cushion of bare flesh enveloping the last vertebra and compressing this man’s hind brain, and, above all, hearing the clear, shrill voice which contrasted so ludicrously with his chest and shoulders, would have perfectly understood why this big, stout, thickset farmer adored his only son, and why, perhaps, he had waited so long for him, as the child’s name of Désiré sufficiently explained. In short, if love, by betraying a rich organization, is, in man, a promise of the grandest things, then philosophers will understand the causes of Minoret’s incapacity. The mother, whom the son fortunately resembled, vied with the father in spoiling him. No natural child could have resisted this idolatry. So Désiré, knowing the


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 extent of his power, knew how to drain his mother’s money-box and take from his father’s purse whilst pretending to both authors of his being that he was only applying to the one. Desire, who, at Nemours bore a part infinitely superior to that of a royal prince in his father’s capital, had wished to gratify all his caprices in Paris as he had gratified them in his own small town, and, every year, he had there spent more than twelve thousand francs. But, for this sum, he had also acquired ideas that would never have come to him in Nemours; he had sloughed off the provincial skin, he had understood the power of money and foresaw a means of preferment in the bench. During this last year, he had spent an additional ten thousand francs, by forming connections with artists, with journalists and their mistresses. A somewhat disquieting confidential letter to the postmaster, whose help his son had asked in a marriage, would, at a pinch, have explained his mounting guard; but Mother Minoret-Levrault, busy preparing a sumptuous luncheon to celebrate the triumph and the return of the licentiate in law, had sent her husband on the road, bidding him ride on if he did not see the diligence. The coach which was to bring this only son, usually arrives at Nemours about five o’clock in the morning, and nine o’clock was striking!

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 rend the air like musket-shots, the red waistcoats of the postilions appear, the horses neigh! the master takes off his cap and waves it, he is seen. The best mounted postilion, the one who was bringing back two dapple-gray road horses, sets spurs to his near-horse, outstrips five great coach horses, the Minorets of the stable, three carriage horses, and arrives in front of the master.

“Have you seen la Dueler?”

On the highroads, coaches are given rather fanciful names; they say la Caillard, la Dueler—the coach from Nemours to Paris—le Grand-Bureau. Every fresh undertaking is called la Concurrence. At the time of the Lecomtes’ enterprise, their carriages were called la Comtesse. “Caillard has not overtaken la Comtesse, but the Grand-Bureau has fairly taken the shine out of her all the same! La Caillard and the Grand-Bureau have sunk les Françaises—the French stage coaches.” If you see the postilion going at a breakneck speed and refusing a glass of wine, question the guard; he will answer, sniffing the wind and looking into space: “La Concurrence is ahead!”—“And we do not see it!” says the postilion.—“The villain, he can’t have allowed the passengers to eat!” “Has he any?” replies the guard. “Then whip up Polignac!” All bad horses are called Polignac. Such are the jokes and the stock of conversation between the postilions and guards on top of the coaches. Every profession has its slang in France.

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 “Monsieur Désiré?” replied the postilion, interrupting his master. “Eh! you must have heard us, our whips must have told you enough, we quite thought you were on the road.”

“Then why is the coach four hours late?”

“The tire of one of the back wheels fell off between Essonne and Ponthierry. But there was no accident; at the hill, Cabirolle happily noticed the matter.”

At this moment, a woman dressed in her Sunday clothes, for the pealing of the Nemours bell was summoning the inhabitants to the Sunday mass—a woman about thirty-six years old approached the postmaster.

“Well, cousin,” she said, “you never would believe me! Our uncle is in the Grand’Rue with Ursule and they are going to High Mass.”

In spite of the rules of modern poetry about local color, it is impossible to carry truth so far as to repeat the frightful abuse mingled with oaths that this news, apparently so little dramatic, called forth from Minoret-Levrault’s great mouth; his shrill voice hissed and his face presented the effect so ingeniously termed by the people, a Sunstroke.

“Are you sure?” he said after the first explosion of anger.

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 “Have I not always told you so?” she resumed, “when Doctor Minoret has lost his mind, this demure little chit will make him take to religion; and as whoever holds the mind holds the purse-strings, she will have our inheritance.”

“But, Madame Massin—!” said the postmaster, stupefied.

“Ah! you too,” replied Madame Massin, interrupting her cousin, “you are going to tell me like Massin: ‘Can a little girl of fifteen invent such plans and execute them? shake the opinions of a man of eighty-three years of age, who has never set foot in a church but to be married, who holds the priests in such horror that he did not even accompany this child to the parish church the day of her first Communion?’ Well then, why, if Doctor Minoret detests the priests, has he for fifteen years spent nearly every evening in the week with the Abbé Chaperon? The old hypocrite has never failed to give Ursule twenty francs for candles when she gives back the consecrated bread. Then you have forgotten the gift Ursule gave the church as thanks to the curé for having prepared her for her first Communion? She spent all her money on it, and her godfather gave it back to her, but doubled. You men notice nothing! When I heard these particulars, I said, ‘Good-bye our hopes! all is over!’ An uncle with an inheritance does not act like this purposelessly, toward a little sniveller picked out of the street.”

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 the old man is taking Ursule accidentally to church. It is fine, and our uncle is going for a walk.”

“Cousin, our uncle holds a prayer-book; and he has a hypocritical look! In short, you will see him.”

“They were hiding their game very well,” answered the big postmaster, “for La Bougival told me that there was never any question of religion between the doctor and the Abbé Chaperon. Besides, the curé of Nemours is the most honest man in the world, he would give his last shirt to a beggar; he is incapable of a mean action; and dissipating an inheritance is—”

“But it is robbery,” said Madame Massin.

“It’s worse!” cried Minoret-Levrault, exasperated by his garrulous cousin’s remark.

“I know,” replied Madame Massin, “that the Abbé Chaperon, although a priest, is an honest man; but he is capable of anything for the poor! He will have bored, and bored, and bored beneath my uncle, and the doctor will have sunk into bigotry. We were quite easy, and here he is perverted. A man who has never believed in anything and who had principles! Oh! we are all done for. My husband is all upset about it”

Madame Massin, whose words were like so many arrows stinging her big cousin, made him walk along, in spite of his embonpoint, as rapidly as herself to the great astonishment of the people who were going to mass. She wanted to overtake this uncle Minoret and point him out to the postmaster.


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 On the Gâtinais side, Nemours is overlooked by a hill, along which extends the road of Montargis and the Loing. The church, over whose stones time has spread its rich black cloak—for it was undoubtedly rebuilt in the fourteenth century by the Guises for whom Nemours was erected into a duchy-peerage, stands up at the end of the little town, enframed at the base of a great arch. For public buildings as for men, position is everything. Shaded by several trees, and thrown up by a neat square, this solitary church produced an imposing effect. In emerging on the square, the master of Nemours could see his uncle giving his arm to the young girl called Ursule, each holding a prayerbook and going into the church. The old man removed his hat in the porch, and his head, entirely white, like a snow-capped pinnacle, shone in the soft shadows of the façade.

“Well, Minoret, what do you say to your uncle’s conversion?” cried the tax-collector of Nemours, named Crémière.

“What would you have me say?” replied the postmaster, offering him a pinch of snuff.

“Well answered, père Levrault! you cannot say what you think, if a famous author was right in writing that man is obliged to think his words before speaking his thought,” maliciously cried a young man who had come up, and who, in Nemours, played the rôle of Mephistopheles in Faust.

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 Nemours. In spite of past behavior of an almost debauched lowness, Dionis had taken Goupil into his office, when further sojourn in Paris, where the clerk had dissipated the inheritance of his father, a well-to-do farmer who had destined him for a notary, was forbidden him by absolute poverty. Upon seeing Goupil, you would at once have understood that he had lost no time in enjoying life; for, to obtain enjoyment, he must have paid dearly. In spite of his small stature, at twenty-seven years old the clerk’s chest and shoulders were as developed as those of a man of forty. Slender, short legs, a large face the color of a sky before a storm and crowned by a bald forehead, still further brought out this strange conformation. His face also seemed to belong to a humpback whose hump must have been inside. One peculiarity of this sharp, pale face confirmed the existence of this invisible hunchback. Curved and twisted like that of so many hunchbacks, the nose bent from right to left instead of accurately dividing the face. The mouth, contracted at both corners like those of the Sardinians, was always on the lookout for irony. Thin reddish hair fell in straight locks, and in places disclosed the skull. The hands, coarse and badly set at the end of over-long arms, were crooked and rarely clean. Goupil was wearing shoes only fit to throw into a rubbish heap, and thread stockings of a reddish black; his trousers and black coat, worn threadbare and almost thick with dirt; his pitiful waistcoats, several buttons of which were short of


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 covering; the old silk handkerchief which did duty for a tie, his whole dress told of the cynical wretchedness to which his passions condemned him.

Two eyes like goats’, with the eyeballs encircled with yellow, both lascivious and cowardly, rose about this ensemble of forbidding things. Nobody was more feared or respected in Nemours than Goupil. Armed with pretensions allowed by his ugliness, he had that detestable intelligence peculiar to those who give themselves free license, and he used it to avenge the disappointments of a ceaseless jealousy. He rhymed satirical couplets that are sung at carnivals, he organized mock serenades, he alone wrote the little newspaper of the town. Dionis, a cunning, insincere man, but timid for all that, kept Goupil as much from fear as on account of his exceeding intelligence and his sound knowledge of the concerns of the country. But the master so much distrusted the clerk, that he kept the accounts himself, did not lodge him in his own house, kept him at a distance, and never entrusted him with any secret or delicate affair. Therefore the clerk flattered his employer by hiding the resentment that this behavior caused him, and he watched Madame Dionis with an idea of vengeance. Being gifted with keen apprehension, work was no labor to him.

“Oh! you, you are already mocking our misfortune,” replied the postmaster to the clerk, who was rubbing his hands.

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“Had I been the old man’s nephew, he would not have made God my joint-heir,” replied the clerk, displaying scant, black, menacing teeth in a hideous sneer.

At this moment, Massin-Levrault junior, clerk of the justice of the peace, joined his wife, bringing with him Madame Crémière, wife of the tax-gatherer of Nemours. This person, one of the sharpest citizens in the little town, had the physiognomy of a Tartar; little round eyes like sloes, under a low forehead, woolly hair, an oily skin, big ears without edges, a mouth with hardly any lip, and a scanty beard. His manner had the merciless humility of a usurer, whose line of conduct rests upon fixed


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Madame Crémière was a stout woman with doubtful yellow hair, a complexion covered with freckles, a little too tightly squeezed into her dresses, was connected with Madame Dionis, and passed as well-informed because she read novels. This financier of the lowest order, full of pretensions to wit and beauty, was waiting for her uncle’s inheritance to take up a certain style, to decorate her salon and there receive the bourgeoisie; for her husband refused to give her the Carcel lamps, the lithographs and the useless knickknacks she saw at the house of the notary’s wife. She had an excessive dread of Goupil, who used to watch for and hawk about her capsulinguettes—her rendering of the word lapsus linguæ.—One day, Madame Dionis was saying she did not know what water to use for her teeth.

“Take an opiate,” she replied.

Nearly all the collateral heirs of old Doctor Minoret now found themselves assembled in the square, and the importance of the event which was stirring them up was so generally felt, that the groups of peasants, armed with their red umbrellas, all clothed in the dazzling colors which make them so picturesque on fête days on the roads, had their eyes upon the Minoret heirs. In the little towns which are something between the big boroughs and the cities, those who do not go to mass remain in the square.


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 They talk business. At Nemours, the hour for divine service was also that of a weekly exchange, often attended by the masters of dwellings scattered within a circuit of half a mile. This explains the understanding between the peasants against the bourgeois in relation to the prices of provisions and of manual labor.

“And what would you have done?” said the master of Nemours to Goupil.

“I should have made myself as necessary to his life as the air he breathes. But, in the first place, you have not known how to take him! An inheritance requires as much care as a beautiful woman, and, for want of attention, they both escape. If my mistress were here,” he resumed, “she would tell you how true the simile is.”

“But Monsieur Bongrand has just told me not to make ourselves uneasy,” replied the justice’s clerk.

“Oh! there are many ways of saying that,” answered Goupil, laughing. “I should like to have heard your sly justice of the peace! If there was nothing more to be done; if, like him who lives with your uncle, I knew all was lost, I should tell you ‘not to worry about anything!’

Whilst pronouncing these last words, Goupil wore so comical a smile and gave it so clear a meaning, that the heirs suspected the clerk of having been taken in by the cunning of the justice of the peace. The tax-collector, a fat little man, as insignificant as a tax-collector ought to be, and as unimportant


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 as a sensible woman could wish, crushed his co-heir Massin by: “I told you so!”

As double-dealing people always ascribe their own duplicity to others, Massin scowled at the justice of the peace, who was talking just then close to the church with the Marquis du Rouvre, one of his former clients.

“If I were only sure of it!” he said.

“You would paralyze the protection he grants to the Marquis du Rouvre, who has been arrested, and whom he is at this moment soaking with advice,” said Goupil, insinuating an idea of revenge into the clerk, “but go gently with your chief; the old man is artful, he must have some influence over your uncle, and may still prevent him from leaving all to the Church.”

“Bah! we shan’t die of it,” said Minoret-Levrault, opening his enormous snuff-box.

“You will not live by it either,” replied Goupil, causing shivers to the two women, who were quicker than their husbands to construe into privation the loss of this inheritance so often laid out in comforts. “But we will drown this little trouble in floods of champagne in celebrating Désiré’s return, eh, gros père?” he added, tapping the giant’s stomach and thus inviting himself for fear of being forgotten.

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6 vary in size in proportion to the distance they have travelled. At Pamiers, Tarbes, and Pau they are of the size of a child's head, but farther north dwindle to pebbles and gravel, and finally we enter on a region of clay and sand, which heavy rains convert into quagmires. Indeed, those of Armagnac, between the Garonne and the Upper Adour, have hardly their equal in France. These are not glacier deposits, for the stones and pebbles have been rolled, and the clay or mud is the chewed or mumbled remains of boulders. At a later period the entire basin thus choked was lifted high above its original level.

That there was a glacial period in the south of France is certain, and the glaciers have left their moraines behind them. The glacier of Argelez extended in one stream to Lourdes, and then fanned out towards Tarbes. At Argelez it filled the valley to the height of 4430 feet. To morraine is due the desolate plain of detritus of Lannemezan. Separated from the mountain spurs by the profound depression in which flows the Neste, it is attached to the main chain solely by the isthmus that runs out from the Pic d'Arneille towards the plains.

The true watershed, between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, lies far to the east, on the frontier between Ariège and the Pyrénées Orientales. All the streams and rivers to the west of the insignificant chain there flow into the Bay of Biscay. The rivers to the east are comparatively unimportant, the Aude alone being of a respectable size; and this does not derive its waters from the main chain of the Pyrenees, its sources are in the spur that acts as the watershed.

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But if the lakes be insignificant, the cirques are of the most imposing character. There are none in Europe comparable to that of Gavarnie. This consists of an immense cul-de-sac, a vast amphitheatre, the stages of limestone capped with snow and ice, and above it tower five huge snow-clad mountain crests. The arena is heaped up with rubble brought down by the cascades. The mighty walls are wept over by water from the thawing glaciers. The highest fall of all is that in the lap of the cirque; it is a stream that precipitates itself from a height of 1270 feet, and, speedily resolving itself into spray, waves in the air like an ostrich plume. Superb as is the Cirque de Gavarnie in summer its appearance in winter is even more sublime. Especially is it so when the mountain-tops are enveloped in vapour. Then the aspect is as of a series of walls with snow bars intervening, mounting as a giant staircase into heaven; and the cascades are transformed into crystal columns. There are other cirques deserving of notice, as that of Estaubé, commanded by the Pic de Pinède, behind which rises the Mont Perdu, on Spanish ground. Troumousse, to the east of Estaubé, is a basin of pasture, girded about by a rampart 3000 feet in height, above which soars the Munia, a mass of snow and ice.

From the French side long lush valleys run to the roots of the first chain between the buttresses, but above this the character of the scenery changes abruptly. The melted snows descending from peak and terrace have sawn their way through the barrier imposed by the northern belt of limestone, feeling for and finding faults, through which they have torn their way, and debouch abruptly on to the lower broad

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8 valleys out of restricted ravines. Above these gorges we light on basins, such as that of Luz, green, in spring a sheet of gold from the crocuses. These were lake-beds, dried up when the torrents had contrived their escape. The rich vale of Ossau, between monotonous spurs, ends abruptly above Laruns, and there, through a cleft in the precipice, rages forth the Gave. It is much the same with the other Gave. Above Lourdes it glides through a broad, well-cultivated valley, but at Pierrefite, the mountain barrier is cleft in two places, through one of which roars forth the river from Luz, through the other the Gave from Cauterets. The Val de Campan, the Val d'Arreau, and that of Luchon, have much the same character. Of the mountains, undoubtedly the Pic de Midi d'Ossau is the most conspicuous, not on account of its height, for it attains only to 8700 feet, but from its form, resembling a dog's tooth, cleft near the summit, glittering with snow, and rising in singular majesty above the Val d'Ossau, where the mountains fall back respectfully to allow a full view of its majesty. There are many noble mountains,—the Pic de Midi de Bigorre, 9436 feet; the Vignemale, 10,820 feet; Mont Perdu, 11,168 feet; Maladetta of the same height almost to a foot; but these last hold themselves screened behind the inferior but snow-clad northern range. The Canigou, however, belongs to this latter range, and is afflicted with none of the retiring qualities of the crystalline range. Its steps boldly, ostentatiously forth above the plain of Roussillon, and for long was supposed to be the highest peak of the Pyrenees, though actually reaching only to 8360 feet. M. Élisée Reclus says of it:— "Like Etna, the Canigou is one of those mountains which rise vigorous as masters over a wide stretch of country. From

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below this grey pyramid, cleft with ravines, streaked with detritus between salient ribs of rock, of every tint, is not a whit less striking in aspect than the Sicilian volcano." To the lover of flowers the Pyrenees present greater attractions than even the Alps. They lie farther to the south, enjoy more sun, and exhibit a greater luxuriance of vegetation and more variety in species. We meet in the Pyrenees with all old Alpine friends and make fresh acquaintances—Nowhere does the Saxifraga longifolia or pyramidalis throw up such a jet-d'eau of blossom. I have grown it at home, but it does not equal the beauty and abundance of flower as here wild. Nowhere are the geraniums in greater abundance and variety, springing up among the tufts of sharp-scented box. The crimson Erodium manescavi, the yellow Hypericum mummularium, the imbricated Dianthus monspessu.lanus, and the still more tattered Dianthus superbus, the purple toothwort, the blue stately aconite or monkshood, the lemon-coloured Adonis vernalis, the violet Ramondia pyrenaica, the Primula viscosa and P, auricula, the Lilium bulbiferum, the Lilium pyrenaicum, and a thousand more. Strange is it that the Alpen rose, the Rhododendron ferrugineum, should be as capricious a plant as it is. It luxuriates on the Alps, in the Pyrenees, and in the Dauphiné Alps; but does not appear in the Cevennes, the mountains of Auvergne, or Corsica. The great central plateau of France, though the heights rise to considerable altitudes and the constituent rocks are the same as those of the Pyrenees and the Alps, yet are totally devoid of this beautiful shrub. The earliest inhabitants of the chain of the Pyrenees have left their traces in the limestone caverns. They were contemporary with the reindeer, the cave-bear, and hyena.

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 others. He soon became the head of his profession in London, where nothing equal to Bewick and his pupils had been produced before his arrival. With Bewick he was always in hopeless rivalry, yet, though he was no designer and some twenty-three years the junior of the Newcastle master, he may claim to be the founder of the 'London school' of wood-engraving, and to some extent to share with Bewick the credit of raising the character of his art in England. He specially excelled in engraving figures and interiors, but was less successful in outdoor scenes. The 'Cave of Despair,' after Thurston, in Savage's 'Practical Hints on Decorative Printing,' 1822, is generally considered his best plate, and shows his skill both in 'white' and 'black' line. Amongst the works illustrated in whole or in part by him were 'The History of England' published by Wallis and Scholey, 1804-10; Bloomfield's 'Wild Flowers,' 1806; and poems by George Marshall, 1812. He had many pupils, the most celebrated of whom was John Thompson. The work of Branston and Thompson can be compared in the illustrations to Puckle's 'Club,' 1817. Branston projected a volume of fables in rivalry with those of Bewick after designs by Thurston, but after a few of them were cut he abandoned the enterprise. He also engraved a few cuts of birds to show his superiority to the Newcastle engraver; but though beautifully cut, they were essentially inferior to Bewick's. Branston died at Brompton in 1827. He is generally called Robert Branston.

 BRANTHWAITE, WILLIAM, D.D. (d. 1620), translator of the Bible, was a member of an ancient family possessed of some property in the county of Norfolk, and one branch of which was settled at Hethel, near Wymondham. He was entered at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1578, and there took his B.A. degree in 1582. Two years afterwards, in 1584, he was admitted a fellow of Emmanuel College, which had been founded in the earlier part of that year. He proceeded to .the usual degrees M.A. in 1586, B.D. in 1593, and D.D. in 1598 and in 1607 was elected master of Gonville and Caius College. In 1607-11 he was on one of the two Cambridge committees appointed by James I to revise the translation of the Bible; the part of the work which fell to his committee being the Apocrypha, for which he was especially fitted by an extensive knowledge of Hebrew. He died during his vice-chancellorship in February 1619-20, leaving his books and considerable property to Caius College. There is a portrait of him in the Lodge of Caius, and in the gallery of Emmanuel College, to which foundation also he was a benefactor.

 BRANWHITE, CHARLES (1817–1880), landscape painter, son of [q.v.], was born at Bristol in 1817, and there studied art under his father, beginning as a sculptor. His association and friendship, however, with William John Muller, also a native of Bristol, induced him to give his undivided attention to water-colour painting, and his pictures, from the year 1849, formed no small attraction in the gallery in Pall Mall East. He adopted this change of art notwithstanding the fact that he had gained silver medals for bas-reliefs in 1837 and 1838 at the Society of Arts. His style of painting shows much of Muller's influence. Some of his most striking landscapes represent frost scenes. Among his works are: 'Post Haste,' 'April Showers on the Eastern Coast,' 'An old Lime-kiln,' 'Kilgarren Castle,' 'Winter Sunset,' 'Old Salmon Trap on the Conway,' 'The Environs of an Ancient Garden,' 1852, 'A Frozen Ferry,' 1853 (this and the previous picture received prizes from the Glasgow Art Union), 'Ferry on the Thames' (at the London International Exhibition, 1862), 'A Black Frost.' 'Snow Storm, North Wales,' 'Salmon Poaching,' 'On the River Dee, North Wales.'

 BRANWHITE, NATHAN (fl. 1825), miniature painter and engraver, eldest son of, the minor poet [q. v.], was probably a native of Lakenham in Suffolk. Devoting himself to the study of art, he became a pupil of Isaac Taylor's, and settled at No. 1 College Green, Bristol, where he practised painting with considerable success. He exhibited thirteen miniatures at the Royal Academy between the years 1802 and 1825. He was also a very good stipple engraver. Branwhite made an excellent engraving of Medley's picture of the Medical Society of London. A curious fact about this work was that Jenner came into great notice during the painting of the picture, and after it was finished it was decided to add his portrait.


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 Rh of the town the path descended a steep hill, at the bottom of which was a small creek running through a narrow wet prairie, and beyond this a level plain partially covered with oak timber, and without under-brush. Before the crossing of the creek, the woods were very thick and intersected by deep ravines. No place could be better calculated for the savages to attack with a prospect of success, and the Governor apprehended that the moment the troops descended into the hollow, they would be attacked. A disposition was therefore made of the infantry, to receive the enemy on the left and rear. A company of mounted riflemen was advanced a considerable distance from the left flank to check the approach of the enemy; and the other two companies were directed to turn the enemy's flanks, should he attack from that direction. The dragoons were ordered to move rapidly from the rear and occupy the plain in advance of the creek, to cover the crossing of the army from an attack in front. In this order the troops were passed over; the dragoons were made to advance to give room to the infantry, and the latter having crossed the creek, were formed to receive the enemy in front in one line, with a reserve of three companies—the dragoons flanked by mounted riflemen forming the first line. During all this time, Indians were frequently seen in front and on the flanks. The interpreters endeavored in vain to bring them to a parley. Though sufiiciently near to hear what was said to them, they would return no answer, but continued by gestures to menace and insult those who addressed them. Being now arrived within a mile and a half of the town and the situation being favorable for an encampment, the Governor determined to remain there and fortify his camp, until he could hear from the friendly chiefs, whom he had dispatched from fort Harrison, on the day he had left it, for the purpose of making another attempt to prevent the recurrence to hostilities. These chiefs were to have met him on the way, but no intelligence was yet received from them. Whilst he was engaged in tracing out the lines of the encampment, major Daveiss and several other field officers approached him, and urged the propriety of immediately marching upon the town. The Governor answered that his instructions would not justify his attacking the Indians, as long as there was a probability of their complying with the demands of the government, and that he still hoped to hear


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10 Hardly a grotto that has been explored does not reveal that these men had lived there. There are not many megalithic monuments to the north of the chain, but sufficient remain to show us that the dolmen-builder occupied the land from sea to sea. At Buzy, near the entrance to the Val d'Ossau, is a fine dolmen. I saw it first in 1850; it had been recently dug out by a treasure-seeker. A peasant told me that the man who had rifled it had found a bar of gold so soft that he could bend it. In fact, it consisted of pure gold without alloy. Near the dolmen lay a slab of red sandstone, with circles carved on it, some concentric, much like the carvings on the stones of Gavr'innis, in Brittany, and in the great covered way at Drogheda, in Ireland. Not having a drawing book with me nor a scale, all I could do at the time was to sketch the sculpture on my cuff. Three weeks later I revisited Buzy to make a careful drawing to scale of the slab, and found that in the meantime it had been broken up by the road-menders. The road from Pau to Tarbes traverses a vast plateau, rising 300 feet above the plain of the Adour. It is composed of marshy moorland covered with fern and gorse. This is actually the old moraine deposited by the glacier of Argelez. It is made up of angular blocks brought down from the mountains, excellent material from which to construct mortuary cells. And on this plateau we find tumuli in remarkable abundance. This, as well as Lannemezan, must have served as huge cemeteries. Of late these cairns have been excavated, and prove to cover dolmens and covered avenues; one, the Grande Butte of the lande of Pontacq, contains a megalithic chamber, recalling the finest monuments of the kind in Brittany. The tumulus of La Hallade had been violated in the Iron

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 The plate was partially engraved before the decision to put him in was arrived at, and a piece of copper had to be let in, as background details had been worked over the spot upon which Jenner's head and shoulders were subsequently placed.

BRANWHITE, PEREGRINE (1745–1795?), minor poet, was son of Rowland Branwhite and Sarah (Brooke) his wife, and was baptised at Lavenham in Suffolk 22 July 1745. He was brought up to the bombazine trade, which he carried on for some time at Norwich. He was not very successful, however, as he seems to have paid more attention to books than to the shop. He afterwards established a branch of the St. Anne's School (London) at Lavenham, and conducted it personally for some years. A year or two before his death he removed to Hackney, and died, in or about 1795, at 32 Primrose Street, Bishopsgate Street, London. He wrote:
 * 1) 'Thoughts on the Death of Mr. Woodmason's children, destroyed by fire 18 Jan. 1782' (anon.)
 * 2) 'An Elegy on the lamented Death of Mrs. Hickman, wife of the Rev. Thomas Hickman of Bildeston, Suffolk, who died 7 Sept, 1789, when but just turned of 19,' Bury St. Edmund's, 1790, 4to.
 * 3) 'Astronomy, or a description of the Solar System,' Sudbury, 1791.
 * 4) 'The Lottery, or the Effects of Sudden Affluence,' manuscript.

BRAOSE, PHILIP (fl. 1172), warrior, was a younger son of Philip de Braose, lord of Bramber, and an uncle of  [q. v.] He was one of the three captains of adventurers left in charge of Wexford at Henry's departure in 1172, and later in the same year he received a grant of North Munster ('Limericenæ videlicet regnum'). Supported by Robert Fitz-Stephen and Miles de Cogan, he set out to take possession of it, but, on approaching Limerick, turned back in a panic. He was presumably dead on 12 Jan. 1201, when North Munster was granted to his nephew William. His widow, Eva (Fin. 4 Hen. III, p. 1, m. 2), or Maud (Claus. 11 Hen. III, p. 1), married Philip, the baron of Naas, and survived him.

BRAOSE, WILLIAM (d. 1211), rebel baron, was the descendant and heir of William de Braose (alias Braiose, Breause, Brehus, &c.), lord of Braose, near Falaise in Normandy, who had received great estates in England at the Conquest. The family fixed their seat at Bramber in Sussex, and were lords of its appendant rape. Through his grandmother, a daughter of Judhael de Totnes, lord of Totnes and Barnstaple, William had also a claim to one of those fiefs and through his mother, Bertha, second daughter of Miles and sister of Roger, earls of Hereford, he inherited the vast Welsh dominions of her grandfather, [q. v.] He has been confused by Dugdale and Foss with his father and namesake; it was, however, as 'William de Braiose, junior,' that he made (as lord of the honour of Brecon) a grant to Walter de Clifford (Reports, xxxv. 2, but there wrongly dated), and that he tested a charter at Gloucester in 1179 (Mon. Angl. vi. 457), so that his father must have been then alive. It was probably, however, he, and not his father, who in 1176 invited the Welshmen to Abergavenny Castle, and there slew them, nominally in revenge for the death of his uncle Henry de Hereford the previous Easter (, ii. 297), a crime avenged on Braose's grandson by Llewelyn in 1230 (Ann. Marg. 38). Under Richard I, though withstanding the royal officers on his own estates in Wales, he was sheriff of Herefordshire in 1192-9 (Rot. Pip.), and a justice itinerant for Staffordshire in 1196. In 1195 he was with Richard in Normandy, and in 1196 he secured both Barnstaple and Totnes for himself by an agreement with the other coheir. In 1198 he was beleaguered by the Welsh in Castle Maud (alias Colwyn) in Radnorshire, but relieved by the justiciary, Geoffrey Fitz Piers, who defeated the Welsh in Elvael (Roa. Hov. iv. 53;, ii. 447). According, however, to the Welsh authorities, Castle Maud was taken, and he fell back on Pains Castle, where he had to save himself by a compromise (Brut y Tywysogion). On John's accession, William was foremost in urging that he should be crowned (Ann. Marg. 24). High in the king's favour, he accompanied him into Normandy in the summer of 1200 (Cart. 2 John, m. 31), and there had a grant of all such lands as he should conquer from the Welsh in increase of his barony of Radnor, and was made sheriff of Herefordshire for 1206-7 (Rot. Pip. 2 John). On 12 Jan. 1201 he obtained the honour of Limerick (without the city), as his uncle Philip had received it in 1172 from Henry II (Cart. 2 John, m. 15), for which he agreed to pay 5,000 marks at the rate of 500 a year (Obl. 2 John, m. 15). This was the origin


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Rh Age, and used then as a place of interment; but underneath the cinerary urns of the Early Gaulish period was discovered the prehistoric monument intact—a long low gallery of stones set on edge and covered with flat slabs. It was subdivided into eight cells, and contained twenty-three vases, some of which contained burnt bones, flakes of schist and quartz, a handful of turquoise beads, and a little blade of gold. That the people of the rude stone monuments have their modern representatives in the Basques is probable. All this region was held by the Vascones, who gave to it their name—Gascony. They were driven over the Pyrenees by the Gauls, but in the sixth century they forced their way back to their old dwelling places and the tombs of their fathers, and falling on Novempopulania, as the territory was then called, defeated the Duke Bladastus, in 581, and settled down on the plains. But they were beaten in their turn, and, abandoning the plains, settled in those districts known as Labourde, Soule, and Lower Navarre. The Basques are a people of great interest to the ethnologist, as the last shrunken remains of that Iberian race that once occupied all Western Europe from Scotland to Portugal and Spain, and, indeed, overleaped the Straits and spread as Kabyles and Berbers in Northern Africa. Although overlapped by other races this Basque element forms the main constituent of the French race in the south-west. Every cook knows what "stock" is. It is the basis on which almost every known kind of soup is built up, whether Julienne, soupe claire, à la marquise, à la vermicelle, and Mrs. Beeton only knows how many more. The Iberian has been the stock out of which the English, Irish, Welsh, French, Italians, and Spaniards have been concocted. In France there was a dash of Gaulish, a smack of the Roman, a soupçon of

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 610 something in the course of the evening from the friendly Indians, whom he had dispatched from fort Harrison.

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 Rh said he would advance, provided he could get any proper person to go to the town with a flag. Captain T. Dubois of Vincennes having offered his services, he was dispatched with an interpreter to the prophet, desiring to know whether he would now comply with the terms, that had been so often proposed to him. The army was moved slowly after in order of battle. In a few moments a messenger came from captain Dubois informing the Governor that the Indians were near him in considerable numbers, but that they would return no answer to the interpreter, although they were sufficiently near to hear what was said to them and that upon his advancing, they constantly endeavored to cut him off from the army. Governor Harrison during this last effort to open a negotiation, which was suflicient to show his wish for an accommodation, resolved no longer to hesitate in treating the Indians as enemies. He therefore recalled captain Dubois, and moved on with a determination to attack them. He had not proceeded far, however, before he was met by three Indians, one of them a principal cousellor to the prophet. They were sent, they said, to know why the army was advancing upon them—that the prophet wished if possible to avoid hostilities; that he had sent a pacific message by the Miami and Potawatamie chiefs, who had come to him on the part of the Governor—and that those chiefs had unfortunately gone down on the south side of the Wabash. A suspension of hostilities was accordingly agreed upon; and a meeting was to take place the next day between Harrison and the chiefs, to agree upon the terms of peace. The Governor further informed them, that he would go on to the Wabash, and encamp there for the night. Upon marching a short distance further he came in view of the town, which was seen at some distance up the river upon a commanding eminence. Major Daveiss and adjutant Floyd had mistaken some scattering houses in the field below, for the town itself. The ground below the town being unfavorable for an encampment, the army marched on in the direction of the town, with a view to obtain a better situation beyond it. The troops were in an order of march, calculated by a single conversion of companies, to form the order of battle, which it had last assumed, the dragoons being in front. This corps, however, soon became entangled in ground, covered with brush and tops of fallen trees. A halt was ordered, and major Daveiss directed to change position with [Spier]


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12 Frank, et voilà; the Frenchman of to-day is at bottom an Iberian. This same Iberian was an accommodating personage. He was ready to abandon his own rudimentary tongue and adopt the language of his conquerors. He cast his agglutinative tongue behind his back, took in as much Latin as he could swallow, and produced the French language. In Wales he adopted the British tongue, in Ireland the Gaelic.

He was wise in so doing, for his own language, as represented by the Basque of the present day, is crude, unformed, and wanting in flexibility. The first stage in the formation of speech is in the utterance of nouns substantive. A child embraced by a stranger says, "Man kiss baby." Kiss is a noun substantive. The child has not as yet arrived at the formation of a verb; and baby is a substantive, he has not yet attained to the use of a personal pronoun. The Chinese language remains in this primitive condition. In it the position of the words in a sentence governs the signification. The second stage is that reached by the agglutinative tongues, where a differentiation of the parts of speech has taken place, and pronouns and particles acting as prepositions are tacked on to the nouns and verbs, but in such an elementary manner as never to become fused into them so as to affect and alter them. Always their separate existence is manifest. The third stage is where they are united and interpenetrate each other. The soldering has been so close that only a skilled eye can discover that an inflexion in a verb, a case in a noun, are composite words.

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 612  rifle corps, which occupied the open fields adjacent to the river. The Indians seeing this manoeuvre, at the approach of the troops towards the town, supposed that they intended to attack it, and immediately prepared for defence. Some of them sallied out, and called to the advanced corps to halt. The Governor upon this rode forward, and requested some of the Indians to come to him, assured them, that nothing was farther from his thoughts than to attack them—that the ground below the town on the river, was not calculated for an encampment and that it was his intention to search for a better one above. He asked if there was any other water convenient besides that which the river afforded; and an Indian with whom he was well acquainted, answered, that the creek, which had been crossed two miles back, ran through the prairie to the north of the village. A halt was then ordered, and some officers sent back to examine the creek, as well as the river above the town. In half an hour, brigade major Marston Clarke and major Waller Taylor returned, and reported that they had found on the creek, everything that could be desirable in an encampment—an elevated spot, nearly surrounded by an open prairie, with water convenient, and a sufficiency of wood for fuel. An idea was propagated by the enemies of Governor Harrison after the battle of Tippecanoe, that the Indians had forced him to encamp on a place, chosen by them as suitable for the attack they intended. The place, however, was chosen by majors Taylor and Clarke, after examining all the environs of the town; and when the army of general [Samuel] Hopkins was there in the following year, they all united in the opinion, that a better spot to resist Indians, was not to be found in the whole country.

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 design to make the institution of slavery national. And now I ask your attention to what Judge Douglas has himself done here. I know he made that part of the speech as a reason why he had refused to vote for a certain man for public printer; but when we get at it, the charge itself is the very one I made against him, that he thinks I am so corrupt for uttering. Now, whom does he make that charge against? Does he make it against that newspaper editor merely? No; he says it is identical in spirit with the Lecompton Constitution, and so the framers of that Constitution are brought in with the editor of the newspaper in that "fatal blow being struck." [Cheers and laughter.] He did not call it a "conspiracy." In his language, it is a "fatal blow being struck." And if the words carry the meaning better when changed from a "conspiracy" into a "fatal blow being struck," I will change my expression, and call it "fatal blow being struck." We see the charge made not merely against the editor of the Union, but all the framers of the Lecompton Constitution; and not only so, but the article was an authoritative article. By whose authority? Is there any question but he means it was by the authority of the President and his Cabinet,—the Administration?

Is there any sort of question but that he means to make that charge? Then there are the editors of the Union, the framers of the Lecompton Constitution, the President of the United States and his Cabinet, and all the supporters of the Lecompton Constitution, in Congress and out of Congress, who are all involved in this "fatal blow being struck." I commend to Judge Douglas's consideration the question of how corrupt a man's heart must be to make such a charge! [Vociferous cheering.]

Now, my friends, I have but one branch of the subject, in the little time I have left, to which to call your attention; and as I shall come to a close at the end of that branch, it is probable that I shall not occupy quite all the time allotted to me. Although on these questions I would like to talk twice as long as I have, I could not enter upon another head and discuss it properly without running over my time. I ask the question of the people here assembled and elsewhere to the course that Judge Douglas is pursuing every day as bearing upon this question of making slavery national. Not going back to the records, but taking the speeches he makes, the speeches he made yesterday and

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Rh In Basque the auxiliary verbs alone undergo conjugation, and they exhibit a peculiarity that deserves notice. Take an instance: the auxiliary verb izan, to be. "I am" may be rendered in four different ways, according to the person addressed. In speaking to a male familiarly "I am" is nuk; but a woman addressed in like manner is nun; "I am," when used in address to a person highly respected of either sex, is nuzu; "I am" spoken without any particular reference to any one is niz. So "he or she is" may be rendered duk, dun, duzu, da; and "we are" by gaituk, gaitun, gaituzu, gare.

The Basque language is capable of an incredible amount of agglomeration in the formation of words, and of indefinite modification of times, conditions, forms of words. Etche is a house; argizagi is the moon; elhur is snow; chori is a bird; sagar an apple; oski a shoe; aurhide a child; arrolze, an egg. We feel at once that we meet here with a language which has no relations that we can detect with any of the European tongues with which we are familiar. The Basque has not distinguished himself in literature. It is true that a set of poems pretending to be ancient has been produced and published as relics of Early Basque poetry, but they were forgeries, like Macpherson's Ossian. The nucleus of the Basque country may be said to be S. Jean-de-Luz. Formerly it was Ustaritz (i.e. the Oak of Judgment), where the Elders assembled in Council; but at the French Revolution this oak was cut down. The Basque villages have a character of their own. Erected by a people who do not feel eagerness to look in at one another's windows, a people pushing independence to fanaticism, the villages consist rather of isolated buildings loosely united

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 * Bird Gods, in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 4, issue 710 (August, 1900), 387/8.

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 Rh clothed with willows and brush wood. On the left of the encampment, this bench of land became wider; on the right it gradually narrowed, and terminated in an abrupt point, about one hundred and fifty yards from the right flank. The two columns of infantry occupied the front and rear. The right flank being about eighty yards wide, was filled with captain Spencer's company of eighty men. The left flank, about one hundred and fifty yards in extent, was composed of three companies of mounted riflemen, under major general [Samuel] Wells, commanding as a major. The front line was composed of one battalion of United States' infantry, under the command of major Floyd, flanked on the right by two companies of militia infantry, under captain [W. C.] Baen, commanding as a major; and four companies of militia infantry, under lieutenant colonel [Luke] Decker; the regulars being stationed next the riflemen under Wells, and the militia on the other end of the line adjoining Spencer's company. The cavalry under Daveiss were encamped in the rear of the front line and the left flank. The encampment was not more than three fourths of a mile from the town.

The order given to the army, in the event of a night attack, was for each corps to maintain its ground at all hazards till relieved. The dragoons were directed in such a case, to parade dismounted, with their swords on and their pistols in their belts, and to wait for orders. The guard for the night consisted of two captain's commands of twenty four men and four non-commissioned officers; and two subalterns' guards of twenty men and non-commissioned officers—the whole under the command of a field officer of the day.

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HE province of Gascony included Labourde, of which Bayonne was the capital; the viscounty of Soule, with Mauleon as its chief town; Basse Navarre; Béarn, a viscounty, with its residential châteaux at Orthez and at Pau, and its cathedrals at Lescar and Oloron; Bigorre, a county with its capital at Tarbes; Cominges, and to the south of that Couserans; and finally the county of Foix, on the frontier of Languedoc.

The whole of this stretch of land was included by Augustus in Aquitaine. This the peoples of Vasconia did not like, and they sent to him an embassy to request that they might be organized into a separate province. To this the emperor agreed. Concerning this transaction history is silent; but we know about it from a Roman inscription at Hasparren, set up by the ambassador, to commemorate his journey and the favourable reply he received.

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16 annexed to the county of Foix, and the intervening county of Bigorre fell to Foix in 1425, through the marriage of an heiress. Finally, Navarre also was united to Foix-Béarn-Bigorre in 1479. It furnished the holder with a royal title, nothing more save the scrap of land on this side the Pyrenees called Basse Navarre, of which the principal town was S. Jean-pied-du-port. Gascony should be of special interest to us English, as it was for so long a possession of the English Crown. Louis VII, before the death of his father, had contracted marriage with Eleanor of Guyenne, heiress of Poitou and of the duchy of Aquitaine. He obtained the most splendid dower that ever fell to the lot of a French king. It consisted of nothing less than half of the south of France. Eleanor was a passionate, frivolous girl; Louis, a pale, feeble prince, a prey to petty religious scruples. He took the cross and started on the disastrous and disgraceful crusade of 1147. He took Eleanor with him. She made no secret of her contempt for her husband. "He is a monk, and not a man." She became over-intimate with her uncle, Raymond of Antioch, the handsomest man of his time. She was accused also of carrying on an intrigue with a Saracen. On her return to Europe she insisted on being divorced from Louis, and she cast herself into the arms of Henry Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, and heir to the crown of England. Thus she detached all these provinces from France and annexed them to the realm of England. Indeed, Henry, by the marriage of one of his sons to the heiress of Brittany, found himself master of nearly the whole of Western France. The House of Anjou had sprung into domination on Gaulish soil equal to that of the French king and his other vassals put together, and controlling the mouths of the three great

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xxxvi footnote). Note: "Julian assigns this Theological cause, of whose power he himself might be conscious (Cæsares, p. 327). Yet I am not assured that the religion of Zamolxis subsisted in the time of Trajan; or that his Dacians were the same people with the Getae of Herodotus. The transmigration of the soul has been believed by many nations, warlike as the Celts, or pusillanimous like the Hindoos. When speculative opinion is kindled into practical enthusiasm, its operation will be determined by the praevious character of the man or the nation."

"On their destroyers than on their benefactors." Note: "The first place in the temple of fame is due and is assigned to the successful heroes who had struggled with adversity; who, after signalizing their valour in the deliverance of their country, have displayed their wisdom and virtue in foundation or government of a flourishing state. Such men as Moses, Cyrus, Alfred, Gustavus Vasa, Henry IV. of France, &c."

"The thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted [characters . . . but he] lamented with a sigh that his advanced age, &c." All included within the brackets is erased, and the following substituted: "the most exalted minds. Late generations and far distant climates may impute their calamities to the immortal author of the Iliad. The spirit of Alexander was inflamed by the praises of Achilles: and succeeding Heroes have been ambitious to tread in the footsteps of Alexander. Like him the Emperor Trajan aspired to the conquest of the East; but the Roman lamented with a sigh," &c.

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Rh rivers. Add to all this the possession of the English kingdom. The long protracted and desolating wars that ensued on French soil was a struggle between the kings as to whether France should be annexed to England, or Aquitaine to France.

"By the peace between Henry III and Louis IX," says Mr. Freeman, "Aquitaine became a land held by the King of England as a vassal of the French crown. From that time it became one main object of the French kings to change this feudal superiority over this great duchy into an actual possession. The Hundred Years' War began through the attempt of Philip of Valois (1337) on the Aquitanian dominions of Edward III. Then the King of England found it politic to assume the title of King of France. But the real nature of the controversy was shown by the first great settlement. At the Peace of Bretigny (1360) Edward gave up all claim to the crown of France, in exchange for the independent sovereignty of his old fiefs and of some of his recent conquests. Aquitaine and Gascony, including Poitou . . . were made over to the King of England without the reservation of any homage or superiority of any kind. These lands became a territory as foreign to the French kingdom as the territory of her German and Spanish neighbours. But in a few years the treaty was broken on the French side, and the actual possessions of England beyond the sea were cut down to Calais and Guines, with some small part of Aquitaine adjoining the cities of Bordeaux and Bayonne. Then the tide turned at the invasion of Henry V. Aquitaine and Normandy were won back; Paris saw the crowning of an English king, and only the central part of the country obeyed the heir of the Parisian kingdom. But the final result of the war was the driving out of the English from all Aquitaine and France except the single district of Calais.

"The French conquest of Aquitaine (1451-3), the result of the Hundred Years' War, was in form the conquest of a land which had ceased to stand in any relation to the French crown."

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18 Thus Aquitaine, including Gascony, had belonged to the crown of England from 1152 to 1453, just three hundred and one years. But, although nominally pertaining to England, it contained stubborn and recalcitrant elements, notably the counts of Foix, who were viscounts of Béarn. Towards the close of the eleventh century the viscounty of Béarn had enjoyed sovereign rights, admitting allegiance to none. Later, when Louis XI went in pilgrimage to Notre Dame de Sarrance, he lowered the sword of France on entering Béarn, as being no longer in his own kingdom. This little territory during the Middle Ages was perhaps the best governed corner of the earth, the freest and happiest in France, and perhaps in all Europe. The forsof Béarn were the liberties to which the viscount was required to swear adhesion before he was recognized as sovereign. The earliest of these fors is that of Oloron (1080), renewed in 1290, and it is one of the earliest monuments extant of the Romance tongue. By these constitutions the inhabitants of the viscounty governed themselves. An instance or two of the independent spirit of the Béarnais may be given. Marie, daughter of Peter, Viscount of Béarn, upon the death of her brother, in 1134, became heiress. She had been reared at the Court of Aragon, and had married William de Moncada, a Catalonian noble. She had the weakness to do homage to the king for Béarn. The people rose in revolt, deposed her, and elected as their viscount a knight of Bigorre, well spoken of for his virtues. He, however, disregarded the fors and attempted to rule as a feudal lord, whereupon within a year he was assassinated. Then a knight of Auvergne was chosen, and held the viscounty for two years.

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xxii :Memory, 506.
 * Absence.
 * Forgetfulness.
 * Past.
 * Reflection.
 * Thought.
 * Time.
 * Mercantile, see
 * Business.
 * Occupations.
 * Mercy, 509.
 * Charity.
 * Judges.
 * Justice.
 * Law.
 * Love.
 * Philanthropy.
 * Pity.
 * Punishment.
 * Merit, 510.
 * Character.
 * Goodness.
 * Growth.
 * Success.
 * Value.
 * Worth.
 * Mermaids, 511.
 * Apparitions.
 * Fairies.
 * Superstition.
 * Visions.
 * Wonders.
 * Merriment, 511.
 * Cheerfulness.
 * Folly.
 * Happiness.
 * Humor.
 * Jesting.
 * Joy.
 * Laughter.
 * Smiles.
 * Wit.
 * Midge, 512.
 * Midnight, 512.
 * Darkness.
 * Night.
 * Military, see
 * Navigation.
 * Navy.
 * Peace.
 * Soldiers.
 * War.
 * World Peace.
 * Mind, 513.
 * Disease.
 * Health.
 * Intellect.
 * Knowledge.
 * Learning.
 * Soul, The.
 * Study.
 * Thought.
 * Wisdom.
 * Miracle, 516.
 * Doctrine.
 * Faith.
 * Religion.
 * Superstition.
 * Wonders.
 * Misappropriation, see
 * Bribery.
 * Possession.
 * Property.
 * Right; Rights.
 * Thieving.
 * Mischief, 517.
 * Deceit.
 * Evil.
 * Faults.
 * Folly.
 * Hypocrisy.
 * Lying.
 * Misfortune.
 * Misers, 517.
 * Avarice.
 * Covetousness.
 * Gold.
 * Mammon.
 * Money.
 * Possession.
 * Wealth.
 * Misery, 517.
 * Adversity.
 * Affliction.
 * Despair.
 * Discontent.
 * Hell.
 * Misfortune.
 * Pain.
 * Remorse.
 * Sorrow.
 * Woe.
 * Misfortune, 518.
 * Adversity.
 * Affliction.
 * Evil.
 * Mischief.
 * Misery.
 * Suffering.
 * Trouble.
 * Moccasin Flower, 519.
 * Mocking-Bird, 520.
 * Moderation, 520.
 * Content.
 * Extremes.
 * Happiness.
 * Possession.
 * Success.
 * Modesty, 520.
 * Blushes.
 * Character.
 * Humility.
 * Innocence.
 * Woman.
 * Money, 521.
 * Avarice.
 * Bribery.
 * Business.
 * Economy.
 * Gain.
 * Gold.
 * Mammon.
 * Occupations.
 * Success.
 * Wealth.
 * Months, 524.
 * Montreal, 524.
 * Monuments, 524.
 * Death.
 * Epitaphs.
 * Fame.
 * Grave.
 * Life.
 * Memory.
 * Moon, The, 525.
 * Astronomy.
 * Clouds.
 * Sky.
 * Stars
 * Tides.
 * Morality, 528.
 * Character.
 * Goodness.
 * Virtue.
 * Morning, 528.
 * Aurora.
 * Clouds.
 * Day.
 * Light.
 * Sunrise.
 * Twilight.
 * Morning-Glory, 530.
 * Mortality, 530.
 * Death.
 * Grave.
 * Immortality.
 * Life.
 * Mosquito, 530.
 * Moth, 530,
 * Motherhood, 531.
 * Babyhood.
 * Childhood.
 * Husband.
 * Love.
 * Matrimony.
 * Wife.
 * Woman.
 * Motive, 532.
 * Cause.
 * Desire.
 * Feeling.
 * Influence.
 * Reason.
 * Mountains, 532.
 * Clouds.
 * Nature.
 * Mourning, 533.
 * Consolation.
 * Death.
 * Epitaph.
 * Grave.
 * Grief.
 * Loss.
 * Sadness.
 * Sorrow.
 * Tears.
 * Mouse, 533.
 * Mouth, 534.
 * Dimples.
 * Lips.
 * Smiles.
 * Mulberry Tree, 534.
 * Murder, 534.
 * Crime.
 * Death.
 * Guilt.
 * Law.
 * Revenge.
 * Suicide.
 * Music, 535.
 * Ballads.
 * Singing.
 * Song.
 * Myrtle, 541.

 * Name, 541.
 * Character.
 * Fame.
 * Gossip.
 * Praise.
 * Reputation.
 * Scandal.
 * Slander.
 * Naples, 544.
 * Narcissus, 544.
 * Nature, 544.
 * Animals.
 * Birds.
 * Clouds.
 * Country Life.
 * Creation.
 * Dew.
 * Fruits.
 * Garden.
 * Grass.
 * Mountains.
 * Rain.
 * Snow.
 * Solitude.
 * Trees and Plants.
 * Weeds.
 * World, The.
 * Navigation, 548.
 * Aeronautics.
 * Boating.
 * Navy.
 * Ocean.
 * Ships.
 * Shipwreck.
 * Navy, 550.
 * Navigation.
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Rh ::Peace.
 * Soldiers.
 * War.
 * Necessity, 550.
 * Desire.
 * Invention.
 * Wishes.
 * Neglect, 552.
 * Failure.
 * Loss.
 * Order.
 * New York City, 552.
 * News, 553.
 * Journalism.
 * Novelty.
 * Post.
 * Rumor.
 * Newspapers, see
 * Journalism.
 * Niagara, 554.
 * Night, 554.
 * Darkness.
 * Evening.
 * Midnight.
 * Oblivion.
 * Sky.
 * Stars.
 * Twilight.
 * Nightingale, 557.
 * Nile, 559.
 * Nobility, 559.
 * Ancestry.
 * Character.
 * Greatness
 * Royalty.
 * Worth.
 * Nonsense, 560.
 * Paradox.
 * Parody.
 * Nose, 561.
 * Face.
 * Nothingness, 561.
 * Nonsense.
 * Novelty, 561.
 * Change.
 * News.
 * Variety.
 * Wonders.
 * November, 562.
 * Nuremberg, 562.

 * Oak, 563.
 * Oaths, 563.
 * Decision.
 * Lying.
 * Promises.
 * Swearing.
 * Vows.
 * Obedience, 564.
 * Authority.
 * Character.
 * Law.
 * Oblivion, 564.
 * Death.
 * Despair.
 * Forgetfulneas.
 * Grave.
 * Morning.
 * Night.
 * Obscurity.
 * Solitude.
 * Obscurity, 565.
 * Darkness.
 * Oblivion.
 * Shadows.
 * Solitude.
 * Observation, see
 * Eyes.
 * Mind.
 * Perception.
 * Reflection.
 * Sight.
 * Occupations, 565.
 * Acting (the Stage).
 * Agriculture.
 * Alchemy.
 * Architecture.
 * Astronomy.
 * Authorship.
 * Barber.
 * Blacksmithing.
 * Business.
 * Butchering.
 * Carpentry.
 * Cookery.
 * Dentistry.
 * Hatters.
 * Inns; Taverns.
 * Jewels; Jewelry.
 * Journalism.
 * Law.
 * Livery.
 * Masons.
 * Medicine.
 * Navigation.
 * Navy.
 * Painting.
 * Post (Letters).
 * Pottery.
 * Preaching.
 * Printing.
 * Publishing.
 * Sculpture.
 * Shoemaking.
 * Soldiers.
 * Statesmanship.
 * Tailors.
 * Teaching.
 * Undertakers.
 * Work.
 * Ocean, 566.
 * Brooks.
 * Fish.
 * Mermaids.
 * Navigation.
 * Ships.
 * Shipwreck.
 * Tides.
 * Travel.
 * Water.
 * October, 568.
 * Olive, 569.
 * Opinion, 569.
 * Belief.
 * Criticism.
 * Discussion.
 * Faith.
 * Intellect.
 * Judgment.
 * Mind.
 * Sense.
 * Opportunity, 570.
 * Accident.
 * Chance.
 * Circumstance.
 * Decision.
 * Destiny.
 * Fate.
 * Life.
 * Oracle, 572.
 * Fate.
 * Futurity.
 * Gods, The.
 * Prophecy.
 * Orange, 572.
 * Oratory, 572.
 * Eloquence.
 * Language.
 * Persuasion.
 * Speech.
 * Talk.
 * Tongue.
 * Words.
 * Orchid, 574.
 * Order, 574.
 * Law.
 * Neglect.
 * Owl, 574.
 * Ox, 575.
 * Oyster, 575.

 * Pain, 575.
 * Affliction.
 * Cruelty.
 * Grief.
 * Misery.
 * Sickness.
 * Sorrow.
 * Suffering.
 * Woe.
 * Painting, 576.
 * Art.
 * Palm, 577.
 * Pansy, 577.
 * Paradise, 578.
 * Delight.
 * Futurity.
 * Glory.
 * Happiness.
 * Heaven.
 * Paradox, 579.
 * Jesting.
 * Nonsense.
 * Parody.
 * Pardon, see
 * Forgiveness.
 * Knowledge.
 * Law.
 * Punishment.
 * Parting, 579.
 * Absence.
 * Death.
 * Farewell.
 * Life.
 * Meeting.
 * Partridge, 580.
 * Passion, 580.
 * Anger.
 * Desire.
 * Hatred.
 * Love.
 * Revenge.
 * Passion Flower, 581.
 * Past, 581.
 * Contemplation.
 * Memory.
 * Reflection.
 * Time.
 * Youth.
 * Patience, 583.
 * Humility.
 * Perseverance.
 * Resignation.
 * Rest.
 * Patriotism, 584.
 * Country, Love of.
 * Democracy.
 * Flag.
 * Government.
 * Heroes.
 * Independence.
 * Peace.
 * Politics
 * Right; Rights.
 * Soldiers.
 * War.
 * Peace, 588.
 * Calmness.
 * Content.
 * Rest.
 * Soldiers.
 * Statesmanship.
 * War.
 * World Peace.
 * Pea, Sweet, 591.


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 * Peacock, 591.
 * Pear, 591.
 * Pelican, 592.
 * Pen, 592.
 * Authorship.
 * Eagle.
 * Journalism.
 * Literature.
 * People, see
 * Public, The.
 * Perception, 593.
 * Eyes.
 * Instinct.
 * Mind.
 * Sight.
 * Perfection, 593.
 * Character.
 * Growth.
 * Success.
 * Perfume, 593.
 * Perils, 594.
 * Perjury, see
 * Oaths.
 * Vows.
 * Perseverance, 594.
 * Pheasant, 594.
 * Philadelphia, 594.
 * Philanthropy, 595.
 * Beggary.
 * Benefits.
 * Charity.
 * Humanity.
 * Kindness.
 * Mercy.
 * Pity.
 * Sympathy.
 * Philosophy, 596.
 * Argument.
 * Mind.
 * Reason.
 * Science.
 * Phrenology, 597.
 * Mind.
 * Physician, see
 * Cure.
 * Disease.
 * Medicine.
 * Mind.
 * Sickness.
 * Wounds.
 * Pigeon, 597.
 * Pine, 597.
 * Pink, 597.
 * Pity, 598.
 * Charity.
 * Humanity.
 * Kindness.
 * Mercy.
 * Philanthropy.
 * Sympathy.
 * Plagiarism, 598.
 * Books.
 * Borrowing.
 * Criticism.
 * Imitation.
 * Journalism.
 * Literature.
 * Poetry.
 * Quotation.
 * Thieving.
 * Plants, see
 * Trees.
 * Pleasure, 600.
 * Poetry
 * Poets
 * Poison
 * Policy
 * Politics
 * Poppy
 * Poplar
 * Popularity
 * Possession
 * Post
 * Posterity
 * Potomac (River)
 * Pottery
 * Poverty
 * Power
 * Praise
 * Prayer
 * Preaching
 * Prejudice
 * Presumption
 * Pride
 * Primrose
 * Principle
 * Printing
 * Prison
 * Probability
 * Progress


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 ::Growth.
 * Success.
 * Promises, 636.
 * Futurity.
 * Hope.
 * Oaths.
 * Swearing.
 * Vows.
 * Words.
 * Proof, 636.
 * Decision.
 * Law.
 * Property, see
 * Possession.
 * Wealth.
 * Prophecy, 636.
 * Futurity.
 * Invention.
 * Oracle.
 * Visions.
 * Wonders.
 * Propriety, see
 * Manners.
 * Prosperity, 637.
 * Fortune.
 * Money.
 * Success.
 * Wealth.
 * Proverbs, 638.
 * Providence, 643.
 * Chance.
 * Christ.
 * Christianity.
 * Destiny.
 * Fate.
 * God.
 * Gods, The.
 * Religion.
 * Success.
 * War.
 * Prudence, 645.
 * Advice.
 * Care.
 * Counsel.
 * Wisdom.
 * Public, The, 647.
 * Acting.
 * Life.
 * Politics.
 * Trust, Public.
 * Voice.
 * World.
 * Publishing, 649.
 * Authorship.
 * Books.
 * Criticism.
 * Journalism.
 * Literature.
 * Pen.
 * Printing.
 * Pumpkin, 649.
 * Harvest.
 * Thanksgiving Day.
 * Pun, see
 * Humor.
 * Jesting.
 * Wit.
 * Punishment, 649.
 * Judgment.
 * Justice.
 * Law.
 * Pain.
 * Prison.
 * Results.
 * Purity, 652.
 * Chastity.
 * Cleanliness.
 * Corruption.
 * Modesty.
 * Woman.

 * Quackery, 652.
 * Cure.
 * Disease.
 * Hypocrisy.
 * Medicine.
 * Physician.
 * Quail, 652.
 * Quality, 653.
 * Character.
 * Value.
 * Worth.
 * Quarreling, 653.
 * Anger.
 * Challenge.
 * Contention.
 * Discord.
 * Dissension.
 * Rebellion.
 * War.
 * Quotation, 653.
 * Authorship.
 * Books.
 * Borrowing.
 * Criticism.
 * Literature.
 * Plagiarism.
 * Poetry.
 * Reading.

 * Rage, see
 * Anger.
 * Rain, 655.
 * November.
 * Rainbow, The.
 * Storm.
 * Thunder.
 * Umbrella.
 * Rainbow, 655.
 * Clouds.
 * Rain.
 * Sky, The.
 * Storm.
 * Rashness, see
 * Audacity.
 * Character.
 * Daring.
 * Recklessness.
 * Raven, 656.
 * Reading, 656.
 * Authorship.
 * Books.
 * Education.
 * Learning.
 * Libraries.
 * Literature.
 * Poetry.
 * Students.
 * Study.
 * Reason, 658.
 * Argument.
 * Consideration.
 * Instinct.
 * Intellect.
 * Mind.
 * Motive.
 * Persuasion.
 * Philosophy.
 * Soul.
 * Thought.
 * Rebellion, 659.
 * Dissension.
 * Revolution.
 * Soldiers.
 * Treason.
 * War.
 * Recklessness, 659.
 * Audacity.
 * Care.
 * Character.
 * Daring.
 * Haste.
 * Redemption, 660.
 * Christ.
 * Church.
 * Doctrine.
 * Easter.
 * Faith.
 * Prayer.
 * Religion.
 * Resurrection.
 * Worship.
 * Reed, 660.
 * Reflection, 660.
 * Confession.
 * Consideration.
 * Contemplation.
 * Discretion.
 * Meditation,
 * Memory.
 * Past.
 * Self-examination.
 * Thought.
 * Reform; Reformation, 660.
 * Character.
 * Church.
 * Confession.
 * Conscience.
 * Remorse.
 * Repentance.
 * Regret, 661.
 * Confession.
 * Conscience.
 * Despair.
 * Disappointment.
 * Grief.
 * Past.
 * Remorse.
 * Repentance.
 * Sorrow.
 * Religion, 661.
 * Belief.
 * Christ.
 * Christianity.
 * Church.
 * Confession.
 * Doctrine.
 * Duty.
 * Easter.
 * Faith.
 * God.
 * Gods, The.
 * Heaven.
 * Hell.
 * Holiness.
 * Martyrdom.
 * Miracles.
 * Praise.
 * Prayer.
 * Providence.
 * Redemption.
 * Reform; Reformation.
 * Retribution.
 * Revelation.
 * Righteousness.
 * Sabbath.
 * Sacrifice.
 * Scripture.
 * Virtue.
 * Worship.
 * Remorse, 665.
 * Conscience.
 * Despair.
 * Humility.
 * Regret.
 * Repentance.
 * Sorrow.
 * Repentance, 665.
 * Christianity.
 * Confession.
 * Conscience.
 * Prayer.
 * Reformation.
 * Regret.
 * Remorse.
 * Sin.
 * Sorrow.
 * Repose, 666.
 * Content.
 * Peace.
 * Rest.


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XXVI TOPICAL INDEX, WITH CROSS-REFERENCES. :Sleep.
 * Solitude.

Reproof, see
 * Advice.
 * Counsel.
 * Criticism.
 * Example.

Reputation, 667.
 * Character.
 * Fame.
 * Gossip.
 * Honor.
 * Name.
 * Scandal.
 * Slander.

Resignation, 668.
 * Patience.
 * Repose.
 * Rest.
 * Suffering.

Resistance, see
 * Strength.

Resolution, 668.
 * Character.
 * Courage.
 * Decision.
 * Power.
 * Strength.

Responsibility, see
 * Character.
 * Duty.
 * Honor.
 * Nobility.

Rest, 669.
 * Calmness.
 * Content.
 * Death.
 * Peace.
 * Repose.
 * Silence.
 * Sleep.
 * Solitude.

Results, 670.
 * Circumstance.
 * End, The.

Resurrection, 671.
 * Christ.
 * Death.
 * Easter.
 * Eternity.
 * Futurity.
 * Grave.
 * Immortality.
 * Mortality.
 * Religion.

Retaliation, 671.
 * Cruelty.
 * Murder.
 * Punishment.
 * Retribution.
 * Revenge.

Retribution, 671.
 * Compensation,
 * Crime.
 * Death.
 * Providence.
 * Punishment.
 * Retaliation.
 * Revenge.

Revelation, 671.
 * Doctrine.
 * Futurity.
 * God.
 * Heaven.
 * Religion.
 * Scripture.
 * Visions.
 * Wonders.

Revenge, 671.
 * Anger.
 * Enemy.
 * Hatred.
 * Murder.
 * Passion.
 * Punishment.
 * Retaliation.
 * Retribution.

Reverence, see
 * Honor.
 * Prayer.
 * Religion.
 * Righteousness.
 * Sabbath.
 * Worship.

Revolution, 672.
 * Democracy.
 * Freedom.
 * Government.
 * Liberty.
 * Rebellion.
 * Tyranny.
 * War.

Rhine (River), 673.

Rhone (River), 673.

Riches, see
 * Wealth.

Ridicule, 673.
 * Contempt.
 * Criticism.
 * Jesting.
 * Laughter.
 * Satire.
 * Scandal.
 * Sneer.
 * Wit.

Right; Rights, 674.
 * Equality.
 * Freedom.
 * Government.
 * Independence.
 * Liberty.
 * Possession.
 * Slavery.

Righteousness, 675.
 * Morality.
 * Religion.
 * Right; Rights.

Rivalry, see.

Rivers, 675.

Robin, 676.

Romance, 676.
 * Ballads.
 * Poetry.
 * Story Telling.
 * Visions.

Rome, 677.

Rook, 677.

Rose, 678.

Rose, Musk, 682.

Rose, Sweetbrier, 682.

Rose, Wild, 682.

Rosemary, 682.

Royalty, 682.
 * Authority.
 * Courtiers.
 * Government.
 * Nobility.
 * Politics.
 * Power.
 * Statesmanship.
 * War.

Ruin, 686.
 * Chaos.
 * Cities.
 * Deoay.
 * Desolation.
 * Misfortune.

Rumor, 688.
 * Fame.
 * Gossip.
 * News.
 * Scandal.
 * Slander.

Sabbath, 689.
 * Bells.
 * Church.
 * Prayer.
 * Religion.
 * Reverence.
 * Worship.

Sacrifice, 689.
 * Martyrdom.
 * Religion.

Sadness, 689.
 * Affliction.
 * Desolation.
 * Grief.
 * Melancholy.
 * Sorrow.
 * Tears.
 * Woe.

Safety, see
 * Accident.
 * Care.
 * Danger.
 * Perils.
 * Prudence.

Safflower, 690.

Sailors, see
 * Navy.

Sand-Piper, 690.

Satiety, see
 * Drinking.
 * Eating.
 * Festivities.

Satire, 690.
 * Criticism.
 * Epigram.
 * Epitaphs.
 * Humor.
 * Jesting.
 * Speech.
 * Wit.

Satisfaction, 690.
 * Comfort.
 * Content.
 * Happiness
 * Repose.
 * Rest.

Scandal, 691.
 * Gossip.
 * Name.
 * Satire.
 * Slander.
 * Society.
 * Talk.

Scheld (River), 691.
 * School, see
 * Education.
 * Students.
 * Teaching.

Schuylkill (River), 691.

Science, 691.
 * Alchemy.
 * Astronomy.
 * Intellect.
 * Invention.
 * Knowledge.
 * Learning.
 * Mind.
 * Nature.
 * Philosophy.

Scorn, 692.
 * Contempt.
 * Satire.
 * Sneer.

Scotland, 692.

Scripture, 693.
 * Miracles.
 * Religion.
 * Revelation.
 * Science.

Sculpture, 694.
 * Architecture.
 * Art.
 * Navigation.
 * Ocean.