_, signifies
_great_, as it does also, _several_, or _many_. The common
interpretation of the word _Michilimakinac_, is the Great
Turtle."--_Henry's Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian
Territories, between the years_ 1760 _and_ 1776.]

[Footnote 130: James' Military Occurrences.]

[Footnote 131: Pictorial History of England.]

[Footnote 132: John Grahame, of Claverhouse, was mortally wounded at the
pass of Killicrankie, in 1689, and died the next day. With him expired
the cause of James the Second in Scotland, as, although the war
languished in the highlands for two years after, nothing of importance
occurred. When William was urged to send more troops into Scotland, he
replied: "It is unnecessary, the war has ended with Dundee's life."]

[Footnote 133: While these remarks-were in type, we heard accidentally
of a large monument, in the cathedral at Winchester, to the memory of
Sir George Prevost, with a laudatory inscription, for a copy of which we
immediately wrote to a friend, and which we now transcribe without
comment, as we respect the feelings of conjugal affection by which the
epitaph was evidently dictated.
"Sacred to the memory of Lieut.-General Sir George Prevost,
Baronet, of Belmont, in this County, Governor-General and
Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in North America; in
which command, by his wise and energetic measures, and with a
very inferior force, he preserved the Canadas to the British
Crown from the repeated invasions of a powerful enemy. His
constitution at length sank under incessant mental and bodily
exertion, in discharging the duties of that arduous station;
and having returned to England, he died shortly afterwards in
London, on the 5th of January, 1816, aged 48, thirty-four
years of which had been devoted to the service of his Country.
He was intered near the remains of his father, Major-General
Augustus Prevost, at East Barnet, in Hertfordshire. His Royal
Highness the Prince Regent, to evince in an especial manner
the sense he entertained of his distinguished conduct and
services during a long period of constant active employment,
in stations of great trust, both Military and Civil, was
pleased to ordain, as a lasting Memorial of His Majesty's
Royal Favor, that the names of the Countries where his Courage
and Abilities had been most signally displayed--the West
Indies and Canada--shou