382 CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 



born." Another term of the same era, for " Englishmen/' is ''Angli- 

 geneoseSj" a word familiar by reason of the well known monkish distich, 

 Chronica si penses, cum puo-nant Osonienses, 

 Post paucos menses, volat ira per Angligenenses, 



a couplet quoted not long since in the British House of Commons, in 

 relation to the agitations occasioned throughout the empire by Osford 

 controversies. It referred originally to faction fights between Northern 

 men and Southern men, between Welshmen and Saxons, which filled the 

 streets and neighbouring fields with tumult and bloodshed. The treaty 

 of which Louis is made to regret the violation, in line 8, is that of 

 Utrecht. By the 12th article of the treaty of Utrecht, " all Nova 

 Scotia, or Acadia, with its ancient limits, and with all its dependencies," 

 was ceded to the Crown of Great Britain. The French authorities 

 afterwards contended that Nova Scotia comprehended only the Penin- 

 sula, and did not extend beyond the Isthmus: whereas the charter of 

 James I. to Sir William Alexander, and Sir William's own map, as old 

 as the charter, demonstrated that the ancient limits of the country so 

 named included a vast tract of land, besides the peninsula, reaching 

 along the coast till it joined N^w England ; and extending up the 

 country till it was bounded by the south side of the St. Lawrence. By 

 the 15th article of the treaty of Utrecht, ''the subjects of France, 

 inhabitants of Canada and elsewhere, were not to disturb or molest, in 

 any manner whatsoever, the Five Nation Indians, which, the article 

 says, are subject to Great Britain, nor its other American allies." Not- 

 withstanding, a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine^ for December, 

 1759, sets forth, "while the French usurpations went on so insolently 

 in Nova Scotia, the plan was carrying on with equal perfidy on the 

 banks of the Ohioj a country, the inhabitants of which, says that 

 writer, had been in alliance with the English above a hundred years 

 ago, to which also we had a claim, as being a conquest of the Five 

 Nations, and from which, therefore, the French wore excluded by the 

 15th article of the treaty of Utrecht." We observe from line 20 that 

 Lake Ontario had by some means acquired a reputation for tempestu-- 

 ousness. In the thirteenth of the Duddon Sonnets, Wordsworth also, 



at a later period, sang of 



" the gusts that lash 



The matted forests of Ontario's shore, 

 By wasteful steel unsmitten." 

 The adroit Latinist has, in line 22, made " Mississippi" m:inagca- 

 ble, manipulating it into " Missippia." By " Indus," in line 25, the 



