Who can say in a word, in a sentence, in a
volume, what destinies have been variously wrought, with what new
examples of growth and energy, while, upon this unexampled scale,
community has passed beyond community across the vast reaches of this
great continent!
NOTES
=Jamestown=:--A town in Virginia, the site of the first English
settlement in America (1607).
=Appomattox=:--In 1865 Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, Virginia.
=epic=:--A long narrative poem recounting in a stirring way some great
series of events.
=Governor Spotswood=:--Governor of Virginia in the early part of the
eighteenth century.
=Knights of the Golden Horseshoe=:--In 1716 an exploring expedition
under Governor Spotswood made a journey across the Blue Ridge. The
Governor gave each member of the party a gold horseshoe, as a souvenir.
=Celts=:--One of the early Aryan races of southwestern Europe; the Welsh
and the Highland Scotch are descended from the Celts.
=Slavs=:--The race of people inhabiting Russia, Poland, Bohemia, and
Servia.
=Latin races=:--The French, Spanish, and Italian people, whose languages
are derived chiefly from the Latin.
=Orient=:--The far East--India, China, Japan, etc.
=Norman=:--The Norman-French from northern France had been in possession
of England for the greater part of a century (1066-1154) when Henry, son
of a Saxon princess and a French duke (Geoffrey of Anjou) came to
England as Henry II, the first of the Plantagenet line of English kings.
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