| Science - 1821 - 452 pages
...Illinois regions, which were embraced in their vast scheme of forming a chain of posts and settlements from the mouth of the St. Lawrence, to that of the Mississippi. — They did not occupy the country of the Missouri and Illinois, till more than a century after the... | |
| United States. Department of State - United States - 1830 - 540 pages
...of the importance of the navigation of that river to their future commerce on the interior waters, from the mouth of the St Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, and thereby render that Court averse to any stipulations with Spain to relinquish it. These two objects... | |
| Herman Merivale - Colonies - 1841 - 368 pages
...begun to colonize, the whole region which liesl at the back of the thirteen original United States, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi ; comprising both the Canadas, and the vast and fertile valley of the Ohio ; and had actually occupied... | |
| Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 814 pages
...reciprocal attempts to corrupt the Indians, and lo precipitate them into hostilities with the times, served to inflame the gathering storm, and to hasten...the means of subduing the English power in America. (I) maintained it by their arms and by treaties, especially by those of Riswick, Utrecht, and Aix-la-Chapelle.... | |
| Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 788 pages
...inflame the gathering storm, and to hasten its approach. After the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1743, the French ministry more attentively examined the...extremities of both, seemed to unfold the means of subd'j;ng the English power in America. (I) maintained it by their arms and by treaties, especially... | |
| Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - Canada - 1847 - 278 pages
...made it fall far short of the effect contemplated; so that, although French settlements were extended from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, yet wanting the true progressive impetus, and like exotics requiring unnatural care and protection,... | |
| Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1848 - 782 pages
...gathering storm, and to hasten its approach. After the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1748, the grench ministry more attentively examined the strength and...stretching from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of tbe Mississippi, with an almost uninterrupted inland water communication between the extremities of... | |
| François René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1848 - 488 pages
...inexhaustible source of prosperity to us, to pass out of their hands. From Acadia and Canada to Louisiana, — from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, the territory of " New France" encompassed that which formed the confederacy of the first thirteen... | |
| Alexander Mackay - United States - 1849 - 396 pages
...extending along the sea-board from Acadia to Georgia. New France swept round the English colonies, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, whilst the Spanish Floridas intervened between them and the Gulf of Mexico. Within this wide embrace,... | |
| George Warburton - Canada - 1849 - 528 pages
...which would now be to us a source of inexhaustible prosperity. From Acadia and Canada to Louisiana, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, the territories of New France surrounded what originally formed the confederation of the thirteen United... | |
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