[Footnote 3]: This large shell is used in many of the sea-coast districts of France still, for the purpose of giving signals. The sound, when properly blown, is very powerful and peculiar. They assert that across a level country it can be heard six miles. I have myself heard it more than two, and so distinctly, that it must have been audible at a much greater distance.
[Footnote 4]: The papers of Hatréaumont were preserved for some time after his death, in order to give light in regard to the guilt of his