The Old Northwest: With a View of the Thirteen Colonies as Constituted by the Royal ChartersT. MacCoun, 1888 - 440 halaman |
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... Illinois , and Wisconsin the streams flowing in opposite directions often head in the same swamps ; and in times of high water it would almost be possible to push a flat - bottomed boat from the Lake Basin into the Mis- sissippi Valley ...
... Illinois , and Wisconsin the streams flowing in opposite directions often head in the same swamps ; and in times of high water it would almost be possible to push a flat - bottomed boat from the Lake Basin into the Mis- sissippi Valley ...
Halaman 17
... Illinois to the Gulf . Spotswood's main ob- ject was to study the relation of the Virginia frontier to the French in the Lake country . How little advantage he de- rived from his observations and inquiries of the Indians is well told in ...
... Illinois to the Gulf . Spotswood's main ob- ject was to study the relation of the Virginia frontier to the French in the Lake country . How little advantage he de- rived from his observations and inquiries of the Indians is well told in ...
Halaman 28
... Illinois make the Ohio and the Wabash one stream , called " Wabash or Ohio , " flowing from its source almost due west , and thus nearly obliterating the State of Ohio . Sometimes Lake Erie runs south far toward the Gulf of Mexico ; and ...
... Illinois make the Ohio and the Wabash one stream , called " Wabash or Ohio , " flowing from its source almost due west , and thus nearly obliterating the State of Ohio . Sometimes Lake Erie runs south far toward the Gulf of Mexico ; and ...
Halaman 31
... Illinois to the Mississippi . But History has adjudged the honor of discovering the great river to others , and she is not likely to change her verdict . Plainly , the time had come for the Mississippi to be dis- covered ; and in 1672 ...
... Illinois to the Mississippi . But History has adjudged the honor of discovering the great river to others , and she is not likely to change her verdict . Plainly , the time had come for the Mississippi to be dis- covered ; and in 1672 ...
Halaman 32
... Illinois River , the Chicago portage , and Lake Michigan , returned to Green Bay , having paddled their canoes , in four months , two thousand five hundred miles . Joliet lived many years to encounter new perils , among them a journey ...
... Illinois River , the Chicago portage , and Lake Michigan , returned to Green Bay , having paddled their canoes , in four months , two thousand five hundred miles . Joliet lived many years to encounter new perils , among them a journey ...
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Halaman 272 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Halaman 271 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Halaman 272 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Halaman 418 - The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Halaman 98 - ... as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are...
Halaman 177 - For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all subjects to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge and concurrence and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and Opinion...
Halaman 146 - Mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with...
Halaman 263 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — for solidity of reason, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion under a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Halaman 95 - River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Halaman 341 - Louis river; thence up the main channel of said river to the first rapids in the same, above the Indian village, according to Nicollet's map; thence due south to the main branch of the river St.