Alright, we all know the aeronaut Lee Scoresby is a Texan. Ok. When the author is talking about Jordan College in the beginning of the book, it say something like . . . 'nowhere in Europe or NEW FRANCE can something or other'. Now, I THINK that Texas was NOT a State when Ontario and Quebec were still being called New France. Maybe because it's in a different world, but I just wanted to point that out.