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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5758, 1 May 1880, Page 7

During a written examination in one of the public schools in , a town within twenty-five miles of Boston, U.S., the following question in history was given out, and the answer, if not in every particular strictly correct, certainly, attracted the attention of the examiner qnite as much as a good many others which were more in harmony with the generally accepted facts in history :—Questioni '' Who were the Huguenots?" Answer": "The Huguenots were a warlike tribe of Indians inhabiting the south-west part of Philadelphia, and supposed to have been descendants of the Church of England." .- ' Several remarkable seas —including inland .seas,.some of them connected and some not | connected by straits with still larger seasare now definable in the southern homißp I of the planet Mars, in whicb, as-in also with the more wdely spread than a hemisphere. er6 ,- ?„ -jjke the Baltic in southern sea ® lOßO f'°s'j ther aod still more shape ; and tho '® defined by the qbser" ' remarkable sea near the ■ vation of mß ?y „ Straggling arm, twisting e , qaat °intheeh£po of MiSlaid on ita took, in'the snap 100 nßles| in