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GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE. 



Pierre Belon, who published excellent Cosmographies oil the East; Jean 

 Parmentier'and Francois Nicolay, who visited the two Indies, and brought 

 back much interesting information. Amongst the most indefatigable of 



Fig. 208. Vow of the first Companions of St. Ignatius in the Church of Monlmartre, upon the 

 Day of the Assumption (1534). Father Pierre Lefevre, the only priest in the whole Compaq-, 

 is saying Mass. Picture of the School of Simon Vouet (Seventeenth Century), in the School 

 of St. Genevieve, Paris. 



travellers were the companions of St. Ignatius and of Francois Xavier, who 

 commenced about this time to write the history of their missions in the 



