[Footnote 10: In Jeffreys' _American Atlas_, 1775, the Assiniboils (sic) or St. Charles river is prolonged to the Pacific by a dotted line, entitled the 'River of the West.' Below it a range of mountains is traced from north to south, with the note, 'Hereabouts are supposed to be the mountains of bright stones mentioned in the map of the Indian Ochagach.' In Carver's _Travels through North America in 1766-8_, published in 1778, p. 121, the Rocky mountains 'are called the Shining Mountains from an infinite number of chrystal stones of amazing size with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a very great distance.' Morse's _American Geography_, 1794, shows the Rocky mountains on the map of America. In the text they are called 'Shining Mountains.' In Arrowsmith's _Map of North America_, dated 1795-6, they are called Stony Mountains. In a later edition of 1811 the name 'Rocky Mountains' appears.] NOTE.--For the substance of the above chapter, see KINGSFORD'S _History of Canada_, vol. iii; PARKMAN'S _A Half Century of Conflict_; Sir J. BOURINOT'S _Cape Breton_ (referred to above on p. 34, note); and _Louisbourg in 1745_, the anonymous _Lettre d'un habitant de Louisbourg_, edited and translated by Professor WRONG, (Toronto, 1897). {216} CHAPTER VIII THE PRELUDE TO THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR The fifteen years from the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 to the Peace of Paris in 1763 include the most stirring and picturesque times in the history of Canada. They were masculine years, when, in all parts of the world, great men did great things. They were the years when Montcalm and Wolfe fought and died on the St. Lawrence; when Robert Clive mastered India; when Chatham redeemed England from littleness; and when Frederick of Prussia became known for all time as Frederick the Great, by standing grimly foursquare against the continent of Europe in the Seven Years' War. [Sidenote: _The southern colonies drawn into the struggle with France._]