France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.