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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ... VI. ENGLISH DISCOVERIES IN THE OHIO VALLEY. It is not our purpose to review the Journal of the old traveller in the Northwest, though it is curious and interesting; hut to give within the proper limits, an outline of the history of the Ohio valley from 1744 to 1774, a period which has been generally despatched in two pages, but might, if well explored, fill a volume. In our last number but one, we sketched, with a few rapid strokes, the progress of French discovery in the valley of the Mississippi. The first travellers reached that river in 1673, and when the new year of 1750 broke upon the great wilderness of the West, all was still a wilderness, except those little spots upon the prairies of Illinois, and among the marshes of Louisiana, of which we gave a list in that sketch. It is true, that some have told us that St. Vincent's, or Vincennes, upon the Wabash, was settled before the middle of the last century. Volney thought 1. Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768. By J. Carter, Esquire, Captain of a Company of Provincial Troops, during the late War with France. The third Edition. To which is added, some Account of the Author, and a Copious Index. London: printed for C. Billy, II. Paine, and J. Phelps. 1780. 2. Carver's Travels in Wisconsin. From the Third London Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1838. From the North American Review, for July, 1839. VOL. II. 16 he found evidence of its settlement in 1735, and Bishop Brute, the present Catholic bishop of Indiana, speaks of a missionary station at Vincennes in 1700, and of the death of a M. de Vincennes, who was sent to protect the post, in 1735.t We cannot, however, discover any early authority to support the traveller or the bishop. Charlevoix, whos...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151121059
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151121053
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 290 gr


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