South Dakota Historical Collections, Volume 7State Publishing Company, 1914 - South Dakota |
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Page 11
... called Louviere . To keep the text consis- tent we adopted the first , but since the body of the book was printed Mr. Benj . Sulte has identified the man as Louis- Michel Louviere , son of Charles Damours , born at St. Foye , Canada ...
... called Louviere . To keep the text consis- tent we adopted the first , but since the body of the book was printed Mr. Benj . Sulte has identified the man as Louis- Michel Louviere , son of Charles Damours , born at St. Foye , Canada ...
Page 52
... called Vir- ginia , and other parts and Territories in America , either apper- taining to us , or which are not now actually possessed by any Christian Prince or People , situate , lying , and being all along the Sea Coasts , between ...
... called Vir- ginia , and other parts and Territories in America , either apper- taining to us , or which are not now actually possessed by any Christian Prince or People , situate , lying , and being all along the Sea Coasts , between ...
Page 53
... called Virginia , from the Point of Land , called Cape or Point Comfort , all along the Sea Coast to the Northward , two hundred miles , and from the said Point or Cape Comfort to the Southward , two hundred Miles , and all that Space ...
... called Virginia , from the Point of Land , called Cape or Point Comfort , all along the Sea Coast to the Northward , two hundred miles , and from the said Point or Cape Comfort to the Southward , two hundred Miles , and all that Space ...
Page 54
... called by the name of New - England , in America . " The terms of this charter embraces the territory of South Dakota ; it is as clear - cut regarding area , as was the purpose of the Pilgrims to escape religious tyranny . Bancroft's ...
... called by the name of New - England , in America . " The terms of this charter embraces the territory of South Dakota ; it is as clear - cut regarding area , as was the purpose of the Pilgrims to escape religious tyranny . Bancroft's ...
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... called Hudson's Straits , together with all the lands and terri- tories upon the countries , coasts , and confines of the seas , bays , lakes , rivers , creeks and sounds aforesaid , that are not al- ready actually posscessed by or ...
... called Hudson's Straits , together with all the lands and terri- tories upon the countries , coasts , and confines of the seas , bays , lakes , rivers , creeks and sounds aforesaid , that are not al- ready actually posscessed by or ...
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arrived Assiniboines band Beauharnois Beebe Belle Fourche Black Hills Bow Indians brother Butte camp Canada canoes Charles Chevalier Cheyenne chief colonial Creek Dakota Territory discovery distance Doane Robinson expedition explorers father feet Fork Fort la Reine Fort Maurepas Fort Pierre France French Frenchmen Gaultier Gens Horse Indians Hudson Bay hunt journal journey la Marque La Verendrye Lake Superior Lake Winnipeg land latter leagues lodges Louis Louisiana Mandans Marque Marquis de Beauharnois merchandise miles Mississippi Missouri River Montreal mountain mouth nation northwest Omahas party Pierre pirogue Poncas powder prairie present reached region Reine Ricaras route Saint-Pierre savages says sent Sieur Sioux Snakes South Dakota southward Spanish Sulte tablet territory thence Three Rivers tion told trade traveled tribes trip Trudeau Upper Missouri valley Varennes Verendrye Verendrye's village westward Winnipeg winter Yankton
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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...