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: France and England in North America Part III: The Discovery of the Great West (1870) by Parkman Francis - Canada History To 1763 (New France) United States

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INTRODUCTION

The Youth of La Salle.--His Connection with the Jesuits.--He goes to Canada.--His Character.--His Schemes.--His Seigniory at La Chine.--His Expedition in Search of a Western Passage to India.

The French in Western New York.--Louis Joliet.--The Sulpitians on Lake Erie.--At Detroit.--At Saut Ste. Marie.--The Mystery of La Salle.--He discovers the Ohio.--He descends the Illinois.--Did he reach the Mississippi?

The Old Missions and the New.--A Change of Spirit.--Lake Superior and the Copper Mines.--Ste. Marie.--La Pointe.--Michillimackinac.-- Jesuits on Lake Michigan.--Allouez and Dablon.--The Jesuit Fur-Trade.

Talon.--St. Lusson.--Perrot.--The Ceremony at Saut Ste. Marie.-- The Speech of Allouez.--Count Frontenac.

Joliet sent to find the Mississippi.--Jacques Marquette.--Departure.-- Green Bay.--The Wisconsin.--The Mississippi.--Indians.--Manitous. --The Arkansas.--The Illinois.--Joliet's Misfortune.--Marquette at Chicago.--His Illness.--His Death.

Objects of La Salle.--His Difficulties.--Official Corruption in Canada.-- The Governor of Montreal.--Projects of Frontenac.--Cataraqui.-- Frontenac on Lake Ontario.--Fort Frontenac.--Success of La Salle.

The Abb? F?nelon.--He attacks the Governor.--The Enemies of La Salle.--Aims of the Jesuits.--Their Hostility to La Salle.

La Salle and his Reporter.--Jesuit Ascendancy.--The Missions and the Fur-Trade.--Female Inquisitors.--Plots against La Salle.--His Brother the Priest.--Intrigues of the Jesuits.--La Salle poisoned.-- He exculpates the Jesuits.--Renewed Intrigues.

La Salle at Fort Frontenac.--La Salle at Court.--His Plans approved.-- Henri de Tonty.--Preparation for Departure.

Father Louis Hennepin.--His Past Life; His Character.--Embarkation. --Niagara Falls.--Indian Jealousy.--La Motte and the Senecas.-- A Disaster.--La Salle and his Followers.

The Niagara Portage.--A Vessel on the Stocks.--Suffering and Discontent.--La Salle's Winter Journey.--The Vessel launched.--Fresh Disasters.

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