[485] Domenico Cimarosa (1754-1801), composer of over 120 grand and comic operas, of which the _Matrimonio segreto_ is the best known.--T. [486] _Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem_, Book II.--B. [487] _Essai sur les révolutions_: Book I. Part ii. chap. 23.--B. [488] _Atala_: Epilogue.--B. [489] HOR., _Od._ I. 7.--T. [490] Isaac Jogues (1607-1646), a Jesuit priest placed at the head of the Canadian Mission in 1636. He suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Mohawks ten years later.--B. [491] Jerome Lallemant (1593-1673), also a Jesuit father, preached the Gospel to the savages of Canada for nearly forty years. He died at Quebec as Superior-General of the Canadian Mission.--B. [492] Florio's MONTAIGNE, I. 30: _Of the Caniballes._--T. [493] _Ibid._--T. [494] St Clement of Alexandria (_d._ 217) does not figure in the Roman Calendar. The work in question, the Στρωματεὶς, is a medley or patchwork of philosophical maxims and Christian thoughts set down at random, without order or connection, as the title implies.--T. [495] She appears in the _Natches_, which was published in 1826, four years after the above was written.--B. [496] Samuel Champlain (_circa_ 1570-1635) explored a part of Canada, in 1608 founded the city of Quebec, and in 1620 became governor of the province. He was attacked by the English in 1627, and obliged to capitulate; in 1629 Canada was restored to France and Champlain resumed his command, which he retained until his death.--T. [497] Armand Louis de Delondarce, Baron de La Hontan (_circa_ 1667-1715) served in Canada in 1703 and was subsequently the King of France's lieutenant in Newfoundland; he was accused of peculation and fled to Portugal and thence to Denmark. In 1705 he published his _Voyages dans l'Amérique septentrionale._--T. [498] Marc Lescarbot (_circa_--_circa_ 1630) served in Florida under Admiral Coligny. He annotated an edition of Champlain's Voyages.--T. [499] Père Joseph François Lafitau (1670-1740), a Jesuit priest of the Canadian Mission, author of the _Mœurs des sauvages américains comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps_ (1723), &c.--T. [500] Père Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761), another Jesuit, author of the _Histoire de la Nouvelle-France._ (1744)--T. [501] Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk (1771-1820). This tract of land covered forty-five million acres, and comprised large portions of what are now Manitoba and Minnesota.--T. [502] The date of the defeat of the Hudson's Bay Company by the North-West Company and their half-breed allies was 10 June 1815.--T. [503] The French name for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.--T.