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[4] Adam Fergusson.
[5] Dead-lights = strong shutters made to fit the cabin window to prevent the water entering in a storm.
[6] A fish caught on the rocky sh.o.r.es of New England (Tautoga Americana).
[7] See a description of this phenomena in the _Nautical Mag._ Oct.
1832.
[8] Grampus, a fish similar to a whale, but carnivorous.
[9] Presumably Basil Hall (1788-1844) who wrote books of his travels.
[10] Frances Trollope (1780-1863) wife of Thomas Anthony Trollope, writer and novelist; visited America 1827-30.
[11] Founded in 1831 by etienne Girard, a native of France, for the education of orphans.
[12] Richard Crook, a friend.
[13] Andrew Jackson, President, 1829-1837.
[14] William Tipping, a director of the L.N.W. railway in England.
[15] Pishey Thompson (1784-1862), historian of Boston.
[16] Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 1801-1825.
[17] Since removed as unsafe.
[18] The Ca.n.a.l from the Rideau Lake connects the Ottawa River and Lake Ontario.
[19] John George Lambton, Earl of Durham (1792-1840), was High Commissioner in Canada. Author of "Report on the affairs of British North America."
[20] The boundary between Canada and the United States.
[21] Built in 1823-32.
[22] Built by the French in 1755.
[23] All three had recently been rebuilt.
[24] Died at Boston 1832.
[25] Erected 1825-42 to commemorate the battle of Bunker Hill 1775.
[26] _Const.i.tution_, American s.h.i.+p in war of 1813.
[27] William Ellery Channing, D.D., 1780-1842, Unitarian Minister at Boston from 1803 until his death.
[28] The sunken reefs which made this dangerous to navigation were removed by nitro-glycerine explosions in 1876 and 1885.
[29] The Catskill Mountains rise abruptly from the Hudson 2000-3000 feet high.
[30] Dr. Priestley died at Northumberland, Pa., 1804.
[31] Botan. Conocarpus.
[32] A light four-wheeled carriage.
[33] Thomas Hamilton, 1789-1842.
[34] Two small islands south-west of Wexford.
