Chapter 67: 646-657
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Sir William Johnson... Mohawk... Warrior Path... Six Nations
See pages 636 & 554.
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Socko Stoombray
Se acostumbre = one adjusts
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Pips
Something or someone excellent, of high quality. From WIKI In this context, "some of them are Babes, too".
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Encyclopedists
The Encyclopédistes were a group of 18th century writers in France who compiled the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Like Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), who created the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, the Encyclopédistes were part of the intellectual group known as the philosophes. They promoted the advancement of science and secular thought, and supported the tolerance, rationality and open-mindedness of the Enlightenment. From WIKI
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"Far, far to the North and West...Springs of Fire run ev'rywhere."
The description and geographical position of the valley hints at Brobdingnag, the nation of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726). Gulliver is abandoned by his companions on a field of giant vegetables, and is finally found by a farmer. Brobdingnag is a fictive pensinsula to the north-west of California, which is surrounded by volcanoes.
