in the United States of America. 491 
““the:sansculotte gallery instantly recognized their old insurrectionary ac« 
-quaintance,” &c. Burke’s Fourth Letter on the Regicide Peace, yol. v. 
of his works, pp. 34, 35. Amer. ed. 
| _This word is a production of the French Revolution, and perhaps 
- (like the term sanseulotte and some others) would not have been used by 
» ~~ Burke, except when writing upon the affairs of France. I have never met 
with it in any other English author, and it is not mentioned by any of the 
lexicographers but Mason. 
are eon ere: or INTERVALE. “¢ sier the borders of the rivers, 
ata dist from one¢ another, are some small portions of meadow, or of 
those eit! ixipliada; that, in New: England, are included with meadow 
in the denomination of interval-lands, Kendail’s Travels, vol. ii. p. 71. 
Mr. Kendall then criticises Dr. Morse for using interval as synonymous. 
_ Jewith meadow, observing, that “if the word interval were synonymous with 
meadow, it ought upon no account to be employed; and it is only because 
it is not synonymous, that it is useful, and deserves to be retained....The 
~ interval, intended in New England geography, is the iterval or space be- 
tweena river and the mountains, which on both sides uniformly accompany 
its course at a ee or less distance from.its margin. Hence interval- 
_yalley through which | 7 
Belknafi uses the word intervale 3 fee that he can “ cite no very 
ancient authority for it; but it is well understood, in all parts of New Eng-- 
land, to distinguish the low land adjacent to the fresh rivers, which is fre- 
~ sequently overflowed by the freshets, and which is accounted some of our 
» most yaluable soil, becauge it is rendered permanently fertile by the boun- 
tifal hand. of nature, without the labor of man.” Hist. of New Hampsh. 
vol. iii, preface, p, 6. 
To ISSUE. The British Critic for 1809 (yol. xxxv. p. 182) censures the use 
of this. verb, in the following passage of the Rev. Dr. Bapcroft’s Life of 
. Washington: “The northern campaign had isswed in the capture of gen- 
eral Burgoyne. p. 169.” It has been often used by American authors,and- 
is “still. sometimes met with in writing. Dr. Witherspoon has not mem- 
