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Canada. This committee succeeded in effecting the immigration 

 into Canada of about 4,000 souls. Half of the girls were from 

 county places in Normandy, and the other half were well edu- 

 cated persons who did not go into the rural districts, but mar- 

 ried in Quebec, Three Rivers, and Montreal. 



In 1673 the King stopped all immigration, and this was the 

 end of French attempts to colonize Canada. The settlers, of 

 course, remained as they were, and in 1680 the whole popula- 

 tion amounted only to 9,700 souls. Double the number ever}^ 

 thirty years and we have the present French population of the 

 Provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and of the groups established 

 now in the United States." 



On the subject of uniformity of language, which is so remark- 

 able among the French-Canadians, we may observe that it is the 

 best language spoken from Rochelle to Paris and Tours, and from 

 there to Rouen. Writers of the seventeenth century have ex- 

 pressed the opinion that French-Canadians could understand a 

 dramatic play as well as the elite of Paris. No wonder to us, 

 since we know that theatricals were common occurrences in 

 Canada, and that the " Cid of Corneille " was played in Quebec 

 in 1645 ; the " Tartuffe of Moliere " in 1677, and so on. The taste 

 for music and love for song are characteristics of the French- 

 Canadian race. The facility with which they learn foreign lan- 

 guages is well known in America, where they speak Indian, 

 Spanish, and English as well as their own tongue. 



THE HEIGHT OF MT RAINIER 



By Richard U. Goode, 



United States Geological Survey 



Four separate determinations of the height of Mt Rainier, 

 Washington, have been made, and, while no single one of them 

 independently would be considered conclusive, the close corre- 

 spondence between the results warrants an acceptance of the 

 mean as being very close to the true altitude. Two of these de- 

 terminations were by cistern barometer and two by angulation. 



During the summer of 1897 Professor Edgar McClure carried 

 a cistern barometer to the summit of Rainier, at the time the 

 Mazamas had their annual outing, and obtained one set of ob- 

 servations, including readings of attached and detached ther- 



