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Page 61
... Winnipeg . Agnes C. Laut , in " Conquest of the Great Northwest , ' speaking of the Selkirk plans on the Red River , says : " In brief , Lord Selkirk's scheme is that the Company ( H. B. Co. ) grant him a region for colonizing on Red ...
... Winnipeg . Agnes C. Laut , in " Conquest of the Great Northwest , ' speaking of the Selkirk plans on the Red River , says : " In brief , Lord Selkirk's scheme is that the Company ( H. B. Co. ) grant him a region for colonizing on Red ...
Page 90
... North First Mandan Fort 1739 Winnipeg Maurepas Fort St Char Lake Fr Rouge Cana & Devils Lake Heart River Bismarck Second Mandan For 1738-1742 Pierce Sip u Th Cheyenne Ft Pierr Plate Buried 1743 Bad R Missouri River Minnes ; Minnesota Rive.
... North First Mandan Fort 1739 Winnipeg Maurepas Fort St Char Lake Fr Rouge Cana & Devils Lake Heart River Bismarck Second Mandan For 1738-1742 Pierce Sip u Th Cheyenne Ft Pierr Plate Buried 1743 Bad R Missouri River Minnes ; Minnesota Rive.
Page 95
... Winnipeg river and prepared to build there . 1734. Pierre I. , returned to Montreal to arrange with dis- satisfied partners . 1734. Fort Marepas was built at Lake Winnipeg this fall . 1735. Pierre I. , returns to Fort St. Charles and ...
... Winnipeg river and prepared to build there . 1734. Pierre I. , returned to Montreal to arrange with dis- satisfied partners . 1734. Fort Marepas was built at Lake Winnipeg this fall . 1735. Pierre I. , returns to Fort St. Charles and ...
Page 96
... Winnipeg , ascended the Assinaboine to Portage La Prairie , where they built Fort La Reine . 1738. Charles Nolant , dit La Marque , accompanied by his brother Nicholas Augustin , and 8 men joined the Verendryes at Fort La Reine ...
... Winnipeg , ascended the Assinaboine to Portage La Prairie , where they built Fort La Reine . 1738. Charles Nolant , dit La Marque , accompanied by his brother Nicholas Augustin , and 8 men joined the Verendryes at Fort La Reine ...
Page 101
... Winnipeg , yet the air was filled with rumors of a faraway water route to the Western Sea ! Enough that the spirit of the age dreamed and dared everything . Enough that spirit was , in the modern. SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 101.
... Winnipeg , yet the air was filled with rumors of a faraway water route to the Western Sea ! Enough that the spirit of the age dreamed and dared everything . Enough that spirit was , in the modern. SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 101.
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Page 505 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ; — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate JOKES.
Page 70 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 537 - Twere vain the ocean-depths to sound, Or pierce to either pole : 2 The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 72 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Page 53 - Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea, West and Northwest...
Page 133 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
Page 505 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 73 - They only ask of me one town in Louisiana, but I already consider the colony as entirely lost; and it appears to me that in the hands of this growing power it will be more useful to the policy, and even to the commerce, of France, than if I should attempt to keep it.
Page 505 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 70 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...