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808 of colonies, finding in colonial history facts which have no answering stages in the history of the parent state, will point out the lacunae and predict that, when that history has been more closely studied, corresponding facts will be found. Only the surface of history has been scratched. Within the last thirty years the early constitutional history of France and Germany has been rewritten by Waitz, Roth, and Sohm. Yet the documents possessed by these scholars were, most of them, at the command of earlier scholars. It was the key that was wanting, the point of view that was false. So may colonial history (or may we call it coloniology?) furnish new means of reading the past.

It is necessarily only of the mother country that the colony repeats the development. The Phœnician, Greek, and Roman, the Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, and Dutch colonies are radically unlike one another in their origin and growth. Where they resemble they are but repeating the story of universal humanity. There have been agrarian agitations in New York and Australia, and Gracchi in New Zealand, but they do not reduplicate those of Rome. Nor were the tribunes of New Amsterdam Roman tribunes.

It is, finally, in perfect consistency with the analogy that the colony should often outstrip the parent state. While still dependent, it may develop institutions in advance of any to be found in the mother country, and after emancipation it may be a social organism of a higher type. The Australasian colonies have far surpassed Great Britain in the liberal character of their legislation, and in the United States the feeling of equality between man and man has gained a vigor never likely to be attained in the countries which contributed to the colonization of North America.

, one of "the nine young men from Kentucky," of Lewis and Clark's expedition, who seems to have been a very useful member of the company, died rather suddenly while the expedition was on its way, on the banks of the Missouri River, August 20, 1804, and was buried on a high bluff about a mile above the place of his death, which was named after him; while the stream next above was called Floyd's River and the opposite bluff was named Sergeant's Bluff. Floyd's Bluff is now included within the limits of Sioux City, Iowa, but has been much changed by the wash of the river. In 1857 the grave had become so exposed that the remains were removed to another part of the hill. The Floyd Memorial Association was organized in 1895 for the erection of a monument to the deceased sergeant, whose name has become identified with the history of the city, and to establish and maintain a public park at the place where he is buried; and final memorial services were held at the grave on the anniversary of his death in 1895, with several memorial addresses and a historical address by Dr. Elliott Coues, under whose direction a full account of the proceedings has been published.