The Library of American Biography, Том 11Hilliard, Gray, 1844 |
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... thoughts were brooding over projects of peril and adventure , which he was destined at a future day to put in execution . ROBERT CAVE- LIER DE LA SALLE came to Canada about the year 1667. He was a native of Rouen in Normandy . Of the ...
... thoughts were brooding over projects of peril and adventure , which he was destined at a future day to put in execution . ROBERT CAVE- LIER DE LA SALLE came to Canada about the year 1667. He was a native of Rouen in Normandy . Of the ...
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... thoughts were roaming far beyond the sphere of his immediate occupations . Speculative minds in Europe had long been dreaming of a shorter way to China and Japan across the North American continent . The fervid imagination of La Salle ...
... thoughts were roaming far beyond the sphere of his immediate occupations . Speculative minds in Europe had long been dreaming of a shorter way to China and Japan across the North American continent . The fervid imagination of La Salle ...
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... thoughts again to his great project of western discovery . After the expedi- tion of Marquette and Joliet , he could not doubt that the Mississippi discharged itself into the Gulf of Mexico . This fact only inflamed him with the more ...
... thoughts again to his great project of western discovery . After the expedi- tion of Marquette and Joliet , he could not doubt that the Mississippi discharged itself into the Gulf of Mexico . This fact only inflamed him with the more ...
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... thought that his men could not reasonably complain of hardships , which he was to share in the same measure as all the others . Within two weeks after their arrival at the island , the vessel sailed , having on board the pilot and five ...
... thought that his men could not reasonably complain of hardships , which he was to share in the same measure as all the others . Within two weeks after their arrival at the island , the vessel sailed , having on board the pilot and five ...
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... thoughts , and employ them in a manner that might prove useful to his designs , he resolved to build a fort . At the junction of the river with the lake , there was a hill of considerable elevation , and of a tri- angular form , bounded ...
... thoughts , and employ them in a manner that might prove useful to his designs , he resolved to build a fort . At the junction of the river with the lake , there was a hill of considerable elevation , and of a tri- angular form , bounded ...
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