ral days before; globes of fire being seen over the cities
of Quebec and Montreal, attended with a noise like that of the
simultaneous discharge of several pieces of heavy artillery;
that the superior of the nuns, informed her confessor some time
before, that being at her devotions, she believed 'she saw the
Lord irritated against Canada, and she involuntarily demanded
justice from him for all the crimes committed in the country;
praying the souls might not perish with the bodies: a moment
after, she felt conscious the divine justice was going to
strike; the contempt of the church exciting God's wrath. She
perceived almost instantaneously four devils, at the corners of
Quebec, shaking the earth with extreme violence, and a person
of majestic mien alternately slackening and drawing back a
bridle, by which he held them.' A female Indian, who had been
baptized, was said to have received intelligence of the
impending chastisement of heaven. The reverend writer concludes
his narration by exultingly observing, 'none perished, all were
converted.'"

The fourth chapter still keeps us at a distance from the "promised
land." The discontents and disturbances which agitated Canada, are
minutely narrated, and, in some respects, not without considerable
interest. One of the causes of the commotion, was an arbitrary act of
power of the Count de Frontenac, who "had imprisoned the Abbe de
Fenelon, then a priest of the seminary of St. Sulpice at Montreal, who
afterwards became archbishop of Cambray." Thus were the genius, the
learning, and the virtues of this great and good man, laid prostrate at
the feet of a petty tyrant; and might have been for ever lost to the
world. It is by such abuses of power that men learn and feel the value
of a government of laws, supreme and superior to the influence of office
and the power of the sword. In this chapter we are introduced to the
name of Robert C. Lasalle, afterwards so conspicuous for his courage and
perseverance in the settlement of these regions. Some interesting
details of his life and adventures, which may be called romantic, are
given, for which we refer to the book.

As the character and conduct of the Founder of Pennsylvania has been
lately assailed, with exceeding injustice, by a Pennsylvanian, and a
judge too, it will add something to the testimony already so abundant in
his behalf, to quote the fol