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Domingo are particularly described, and the mineralogy of the latter fully entered into. Bryan Edwards' History of the British Colonies in the West Indies, and the French Colony in St. Domingo. 1801. 3 vols. 8vo. This work justly bears an excellent character, and is very full and minute on almost every topic connected with these islands. Histoire de St. Domingue. Par le P. Charlevoix.
This is why he spurned the name 'censitaire. As Charlevoix puts it, 'he breathed from his birth the air of liberty, and showed it in the way he carried his head. A singular type, when all is said, and worthy of more study than it has received. Church and State had a common aim in early Canada.
This passage of Heriot's is taken nearly verbatim from Charlevoix, v. 2, p. 109. I left Kentucky, and passed up the river to Wheeling, in Virginia. There is little worthy of observation encountered in a passage up this part of the Ohio, except the peculiar character of the stream, which has been before alluded to.
Champlain, L'Escarbot, Denys, Biard, La Hontan, Cadillac and Charlevoix had described in glowing words the wealth of its attractions. It is worth while in this connection to quote the description which Lamothe Cadillac penned in 1693 just two hundred and ten years ago: River St. John. "The entrance of this river is very large.
Journal d'un Voyage. etc, par le P. de Charlevoix, Paris, 1744, Vol. Our earliest accounts of the game as played by the Indians in the south are about one hundred years later than the corresponding records in the north. Bossu, Captain in the French Marines. Translated from the French by John Hemhold Forster, London, 1771, Vol.
After spending six months in this fruitless search, he was tired of playing the dupe, so giving up the business he returned to Porto Rico on the 5th of October, leaving Perez de Ortubia and the pilot Antonio de Alaminos to continue the search. Père Charlevoix says, "He was the object of great ridicule when he returned in much suffering, and looking older than when he set out."
It appeared, however, that Robert stood in no awe of his father's anger; he said lightly: "They never come back, dad. I'm a regular married man. Lorelei is my royal consort, my yoke-mate, my rib. We'll have to scratch the Charlevoix." This levity left the caller unmoved; to Lorelei he explained: "I want no notoriety, so all we need talk about is terms.
The young musketeer dismounted, and entered the inn. Seating himself at the table replenished by the careful Perigord, he speedily swept it as clean as the first comer. "Some wine, my brave Perigord," said the graceful young musketeer, as soon as he could find utterance. Perigord brought three dozen of Charlevoix. The young man emptied them almost at a draught.
As she had given her confidence to M. de Bernieres, she informed him of all that passed, while she flattered her father each day, telling him that this nobleman was too honorable to fail in keeping his word." St. Charlevoix tells the story without comment, but with apparent approval.
If, after all his efforts, he failed in obtaining the object of his dream, he fell into a deep dejection, convinced that some disaster was in store for him. The above particulars are drawn chiefly from Charlevoix, Journal Historique, 356, and Sagard, Voyage du Pays des Hurons, 280. See also Lafitau, and other early writers.
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