THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory

to say, little interest is manifested by the masses, and their origin and antiqui- ties are with indifference overlooked or wholly ignored. The modern scholar does not consider his education com- plete unless he has paid homage at the ruined piles of monumental art of the Orient, to which history has