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THE POPULAR EDTJCATOE. 



11. When the occurrence is a periodical or customary one, 



the article le is prefixed to the day of the week or the time of 

 the day. 



II vient nous trouver le Lundi, He comes to us on Mondays. 



II va, trouver votre pere 1'apres- He goes to your fatlier in the after- 



rnidi, noon. 



EESTJME or EXAMPLES. 



Je vais parler a M. votre pcre. 

 Nousvenons derecevoir del' argent. 

 Que venez-vous do faire ? 

 Je viens de de'chirer moa habit. 

 Votre f rere va-t-il trouver sou ami ? 

 H va le trouver tous les jours. 

 II vient me trouver tous les Lundis. 

 Allez-vous chercher de 1'argent ? 

 Je n'en vais pas chercher. 

 Allez-vous chez cette dame Lundi? 



J'ai 1'intention d'y aller Mardi. 

 J'y vais ordinairement le Blercredi. 

 H va a I'dglise le Dimauche. 



I am going to speak to your father. 



We have just received money. 



What have you just done 1 



I have just torn my coat. 



Does your brother go to his friend 1 



He goes to him every day. 



He comes to me every Monday. 



Do you go and fetch money ? 



I da not. (Sect. XXIII. 12.) 



Do you go to that lady's house on 



Monday? 



I intend to go there on Tuesday. 

 I generally go there on Wednesdays. 

 He goes to church on Sundays. 



VOCABULARY. 



EXERCISE 45. 



1. Qu' allez-vous faire ? 2. Je vais apprendre mes lecons. 

 3. N'allez-vous pas ecrire & vos connaissances ? 4. Je ne vais 

 ecrire a personne. 5. Qui vient de vous parler ? 6. L'Irlandais 

 vient de nous parler. 7. Quand 1'ficossaise va-t-elle vous 

 enseigner la musique ? 8. Elle va me 1' enseigner 1'annee pro- 

 chaine. 9. Va-t-elle commencer Mardi ou Mercredi ? 10. Elle 

 ne va commencer ni Mardi ni Mercredi ; elle a. 1'intention de 

 commencer Jeudi, si elle a le temps. 11. Votre compagne va-t- 

 elle k 1'eglise tous les Dimanches ? 12. Elle y va tous les 

 Dimanches et tous les Mercredis. 13. Qui allez-vous trouver ? 

 14. Je ne vais trouver personne ? 15. N'avez-vous pas 1'inten- 

 tion de venir me trouver demain? 16. J'ai 1'intention d' aller 

 trouver votre teinturier. 17. Envoyez-vcus chercher le medecin? 



18. Quand je suis malade, je 1'envoie chercher. 19. Beste-t-il 

 avec vous toute la journee ? 20. II ne reste chez moi que quel- 

 ques minutes. 21. Allez-vous a rocolo le matin ? 22. J'y vais 

 le matin et rapres-midi. 23. Y allez-vous tous les jours ? 24. 

 J'y vais tous les jours, excepte le Lundi et le Dimanche. 25. Le 

 Samedi je reste chez nous, et le Dimanche je vais a 1'eglise. 



EXERCISE 46. 



1. What is the Irishman going to do ? 2. He is going to 

 teach music. 3. Has he just commenced his work ? 4. He 

 has just commenced it. 5. Who has just written to you ? 6. 

 The dyer has just written to me. 7. Does your little boy go 

 to church every day ? 8. No, Sir, he goes to church on Sundays, 

 and he goes to school every day. 9. Do you go for the phy- 

 sician ? 10. I send for him because my sister is sick. 11. Do 

 you go to my physician or to yours ? 12. I go to mine, yours 

 is not at home. 13. Where is he ? 14. He is at your father's 

 or at your brother's. 15. Do you intend to send for the 

 physician? 16. I intend to send for him. 17. Am I right to 

 send for the Scotchman ? 18. You are wrong to send for him. 



19. Do you go to your father in the afternoon ? 20. I go to 

 him in the morning. 21. Does your brother go to your uncle's 

 every Monday ? 22. He goes there every Sunday. 23. Are 

 you going to learn music ? 24. My niece is going to learn it, if 

 she has time. 25. Am I going to read or to write ? 26. You 

 are going to read to-morrow. 27. Does he go to your house 

 every day ? 28. He comes to us every Wednesday. 29. At 

 what hour ? 30. At a quarter before nine. 31. Does he come 

 early or late ? 32. He comes at a quarter after nine. 33. What 

 do you go for? 34. We go for vegetables, meat, and sugar. 

 35. We want sugar every morning. 



LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY. VIII. 



DISCOVERIES OP THE NINETEENTH CENTUET. 



SIR JOHN Ross, who sailed in the Victory in 1829, on an ex- 

 pedition to the north, again explored Baffin Bay, Lancaster 

 Sound, and Prince Eegent Inlet; discovered land which ho 

 called Boothia Felix, from the name of his patron ; and explored 

 the coasts of this new country, until he was so hemmed in by 

 the ice, that he could neither advance nor return. The expedi- 

 tion accordingly remained in this condition during the space of 

 four years, the longest period on record of the detention of 

 navigators in the northern regions. While thus detained the 

 members employed their time in making excursions which 

 enlarged our geographical and meteorological knowledge, and 

 added to philosophy the fine discovery of the north magnetic 

 pole. Besides the isthmus and peninsula of Boothia Felix, the 

 expedition discovered King William Land, and the western sea, 

 called after the same sovereign. As to the north-west passage, 

 he found that this did not exist in Prince Eegent Inlet, nor to- 

 the south of latitude 70 N. ; but Sir John Eoss failed in dis- 

 covering a free passage in the frozen seas of America, by which 

 he could find his way to Behring Strait; in fact, the peninsula 

 which separates Prince Eegent Inlet from this northern sea, at 

 the place where the expedition made its principal researches, is 

 not only very narrow, but is chiefly covered with lakes which 

 reduce the isthmus between the two seas to a breadth of three 

 miles. 



Other expeditions, no less dangerous, and equally difficult, if 

 not more so, had been undertaken by land, with a view of 

 exploring the northern regions of America, and the coast of the 

 Polar Sea, in order to assist in the discovery of the passage so 

 ardently sought for during so many ages. Samuel Hearn, 

 employed by the Hudson Bay Company, in 1771 commenced 

 his expedition at Prince of Wales Fort, and discovered the 

 Coppermine Eiver, which he traced to its embouchure in the- 

 Polar Sea. Franklin, in 1820-21, made an expedition by landi 

 along the same coast, between the Coppermine Eiver and Cape 

 Turnagain. This adventurous expedition, accomplished amidst 

 a thousand dangers, among which famine was not the least 

 formidable, was highly useful in a geographical point of view. 

 Two years afterwards the same officer undertook another ex- 

 pedition to the north, and explored the country between the 

 Mackenzie Eiver and Capo Back ; at " the same time Dr. 

 Eichardson, one of the party, explored that part between the 

 Mackenzie Eiver and the Coppermine Eiver. The part of the 

 coast left unexplored between the limits of Captain Beechey 

 and Captain Franklin's discoveries, extending to 150 miles, was. 

 nearly completed in this respect by Captain Back, and after him 

 by Messrs. Dease and Simpson, so that the northern shores of 

 North America are now geographically known almost through- 

 out their whole extent. 



Our geographical knowledge of the interior of the continent 

 of North America was greatly increased by some other im- 

 portant expeditions. Lewis and Clarke travelled to the sources 

 of the Missouri among the Eocky Mountains, and reached the 

 Pacific Ocean by descending along the course of the Columbia 

 Eiver. Pike, in exploring the sources of the Mississippi, dis- 

 covered those of the Arkansas and the Eed Eiver. Major Long, 

 James Peak, Messrs. Cass and Schoolcraft, travelled over this 

 vast region, so remarkably studded with lakes and rivers, and 

 belonging partly to Britain and partly to the United States. 

 Mackenzie, in 1789, went from Montreal, and travelling to the 

 north-west, descended along the course of the river which bears 

 his name, and found that its source was in the Slave Lake, and its 

 termination in the Arctic Ocean ; he then crossed the chain of 

 the Eocky Mountains, and reached the Pacific. In South America, 

 Baron von Humboldt began his explorations, and accompanied 

 by M. Aime Bonpland, the celebrated botanist, viaited Columbia, 

 now divided into the republics of Venezuela and Ecuador, and 

 the Granadian Confederation, studying during his travels all the 

 phenomena of nature, tracing the geography of the country, 

 measuring the heights of the Andes, examining the craters o 

 volcanoes, delineating on maps the courses of rivers, and, in 

 short, exploring the greater part of this magnificent country. 

 On the river Amazon, he made observations equally curious and! 

 important. He proceeded from Peru to Mexico, and made 

 similar observations in the latter country ; and he has described 

 his scientific discoveries in these regions in a style both effective 



