10. GRAND PRE (grän-pr[=a]) means large meadow.
20. BASIN OF MINAS, an arm of the Bay of Fundy.
25. THE TIDES in the Bay of Fundy rise to the height of 60 feet. What is the ordinary rise of the tide?
29. BLOMIDON is a promontory about four hundred feet high at the entrance of the Bay of Minas.
33. THE HENRIES were rulers of France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
34. NORMANDY, a district in northern France bordering on the English channel.
39. KIRTLE, a petticoat.
49. THE ANGELUS was a bell which called people to prayer. What do you know of the painting called "The Angelus?"
57. Real misery was wholly unknown, and benevolence anticipated the demands of poverty. Every misfortune was relieved, as it were, before it could be felt, without ostentation on the one hand and without meanness on the other. It was in short, a society of brethren. ABBE REYNAL.
72. HYSSOP, a plant. A branch of it could be used like a sponge. It was a symbol of purification from sin.