+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | FOOTNOTES: | | | | [1] Many of those who were interested in Arctic research and the | | then unknown fate of Sir John Franklin, will remember the meetings | | at Lady Franklin’s house at Kensington Gore, and how greatly Mr. | | Grinnell’s exertions and enterprise were appreciated. | | | | [2] Mr. Laurence Oliphant, whom I had known in other parts of the | | world, was then living with his community upon the Southern shores | | of Lake Erie. | | | | The last time that I saw him was at a Levée, held in St. James’s | | extreme Palace, in the year 1880, under circumstances which were | | in contrast with his daily life of labour at Brocton. I understood | | that he had come over to England to arrange some business matters | | connected with the affairs of his society. | | | | America is the home of many groups of people endeavouring to carry | | out their various schemes of communistic life. I visited several | | of their settlements and found that their methods of management | | were very different. The prosperity and the harmony of the men and | | women, evidently depended upon their faith in their own strange | | forms of religion. It was also observable that, in all cases, the | | leaders were men of dogmatic character. | | | | [3] The question respecting the proportion of foreigners in the | | armies of the North came under consideration. | | | | It had been supposed that a large number of the troops consisted | | of men of foreign nationalities, but an investigation that had | | been made into the subject has proved that the alien strength of | | the army had been the subject of much exaggeration. | | | | Upon the examination of the numbers it will be seen, however, | | that the composition of the forces deserves attention. Their | | classification was as follows:— | | | | British Americans (volunteers from | | British possessions in N. America) 53,500 |