Il nostro grande continente; schizzi, pittoresca e storica: all'interno e al di là dei membri . Quebec con cinque piccoli battellieri, stabiliti da Mackinaw a penetrare l'UNEX-plored regione a sud della stazione delle missioni dei Gesuiti nel deserto.Essi avevano sentito parlare del fiume Mississippi e ricercato. In due canoe theyreached il fiume Wisconsin a titolo di Green Bay e il Fox River. Theyfloated giù il Wisconsin al Mississippi e scese che mighty la grande repubblica dell'Occidente. 175 stream per la bocca dell'Arkansas River, da dove tornò a dire oftheir grande .scoperte. In questo exp

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Our great continent; sketches, picturesque and historic: within and beyond the States . Quebec, with five boatmen, set out from Mackinaw to penetrate the unex-plored region south of that station of the Jesuit missions in the wilderness.They had heard of the Mississippi River and sought it. In two canoes theyreached the Wisconsin River by way of Green Bay and the Fox River. Theyfloated down the Wisconsin to the Mississippi, and went down that mighty THE GREAT REPUBLIC OF THE WEST. 175 stream to the mouth of the Arkansas River, whence they returned to tell oftheir great .discoveries. In this exploration they entered the mouth of theOhio River, and learned something of its vast length and the region it passedthrough. Marquettes account caused other explorations in the region of the Mis-sissippi to be undertaken. Robert Cavalier La Salle, a Jesuit priest in hisearlier years, was an ardent adventurer at Montreal, in Canada, at the middleof the 17th century. He engaged in trade with the Indians along the St, Lawrence and the shores of Lake Ontario. Inspired by Marquettes adven-. KDWARD TIFFIN, FIRST GOVERNOR OF OHIO. tures, he conceived a grand scheme of exploration and trafific westward, witha few companions. He was authorized to build forts, and was given themonopoly of the trade in buffalo skins for five years. He first established atrading-post at the mouth of the Niagara River. In the summer of 1679 hebuilt a vessel near the site of the city of Buffalo, and, with other adventurersand servants, went in her through the chain of great lakes to Green Bay, inthe north-western part of Lake Michigan, whence he sent the vessel back, laden with furs, and made the rest of their voyages in canoes. La Salle and his companions penetrated to the Mississippi River, voyagedto its mouth, and there, on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, they erected across, placed on it the arms of France, and proclaimed the whole Valley of 1/6 THE GREAT REPUBLIC OF THE WEST. the Mississippi and the regio

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