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edition of Atala '' are illustrative of the type, extent, and use of 

 Chateaubriand's borrowings from Bartram: 



Page 2. 20. On port sur les deux courants lateraux remonter, le long des 

 rivages, des lies flottanies de pistia et nknuphar. . . . 

 Chateaubriand is indebted for these floating islands with 

 their strange passengers to Bartram, who observed the 

 same phenomenon in the Saint John's river in Florida. 

 22. nenuphar. Bartram says of the Nymphaea nelumbo (yellow 

 water-lily): "These fine flowers . . ." (p. 407). He 

 mentions this flower with the Pistia stratiotes (p. 228^.^ 

 30. des savannes. . . . Savannas are repeatedly mentioned by 

 Bartram. 



Page 3. 17. Les vignes sauvages, les bignonias. Bartram says that the 



grape vines which he saw . . . (p. 85). The bignonia 



often has beautiful flowers (pp. 85, 134, 332, 399, 466). 



18. les coloquintes. It is doubtless the wild squash (Cucurbita 



peregrina) described by Bartram . . . (p. 135). 



In this way Professor Goran traces to Bartram Chateaubriand's 

 tulip and magnolia trees, the red cedar, the blue malva, the fiery 

 azalea, white moss, live oaks, mimosa sensitiva, the black 

 squirrel (also described by Charlevoix), snakes, crocodile nests, 

 Seminole horses, tigers, the mocking-bird, woodpeckers, car- 

 dinals, the humming-bird, the nonpareil, strawberries, hiccory 

 milk (creme de noix), canoes, the " World of Spirits," wells, 

 harmony in nature (" Bartram is a poet in prose "),^ physical 

 appearance of the Seminoles, Indian towns of Cuscowilla, Sticoe 

 and Joe, Indian mico or king, Indian architecture, Indian council, 

 treatment of captives, Indian game of ball, beautiful Indian 

 women, property ownership among the Indians, itinerary of 

 the lovers, view from the Occone mountain, the story of the 

 aged Indian. 



Professor Chinard feels that Chateaubriand's indebtedness 

 to Bartram was great enough to warrant the assertion: " Son 

 oeuvre marque une date . . . dans la carriere de Chateaubriand." 



' Atala par Frangois-Auguste Chateaubriand. Edited with Introduction, Notes 

 and Vocabularly by Timothy Cloran. New York, 1911. 



' Professor Cloran's page references are to the Dublin edition of the Travels. 

 ' Op. cit., p. 97. 



