Sault Ste. Marie and Its Great WaterwayG.P. Putnam's sons, 1925 - 458 páginas |
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... Hundred Associates , Openly Use Liquor in Traffic with In- dians Succeeded by the West India Company- The Great Rival of New France - The Hudson's Bay Company Chartered - Danger from the Sioux Threatens La Pointe - The Mission Abandoned ...
... Hundred Associates , Openly Use Liquor in Traffic with In- dians Succeeded by the West India Company- The Great Rival of New France - The Hudson's Bay Company Chartered - Danger from the Sioux Threatens La Pointe - The Mission Abandoned ...
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... hundred miles to Duluth , two hundred and forty miles to Port Arthur , and varying dis- tances to other Lake Superior ports . Those headed toward the east are bound four hundred and twenty - two miles to Chicago , three hundred and ...
... hundred miles to Duluth , two hundred and forty miles to Port Arthur , and varying dis- tances to other Lake Superior ports . Those headed toward the east are bound four hundred and twenty - two miles to Chicago , three hundred and ...
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... hundred feet in length and over , 128 of five hundred feet , and 38 of six hundred feet and over . ' The combined length of 444 freighters , if placed end to end , would be fully thirty - five miles ; of these , two com- panies control ...
... hundred feet in length and over , 128 of five hundred feet , and 38 of six hundred feet and over . ' The combined length of 444 freighters , if placed end to end , would be fully thirty - five miles ; of these , two com- panies control ...
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... hundreds of vessels a language by which they can make their desires and necessities known , a code by which communication ... hundred and six vessels , owned or managed by the Pittsburgh Steamship Company , is usually dropped . Use has ...
... hundreds of vessels a language by which they can make their desires and necessities known , a code by which communication ... hundred and six vessels , owned or managed by the Pittsburgh Steamship Company , is usually dropped . Use has ...
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... hundred leagues in length . " Of course this was an exaggeration . Proceeding northward some hun- dred leagues in this lake , the Indian said , a very large island ( Great Manitoulin ) would be reached . Another hundred leagues would ...
... hundred leagues in length . " Of course this was an exaggeration . Proceeding northward some hun- dred leagues in this lake , the Indian said , a very large island ( Great Manitoulin ) would be reached . Another hundred leagues would ...
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Página 353 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
Página 356 - Never in the course of my life have I known a controversy of which all the right was so clear on one side and all the power so overwhelmingly on the other...
Página 212 - My friends and brothers, I am come with this belt from our great father, Sir William Johnson. He desired me to come to you as his ambassador, and tell you that he is making a great feast at Fort Niagara ; that his kettles are all ready and his fires lit.
Página 95 - ... depend. For this reason they preserve these pieces of copper, wrapped up, among their most precious possessions. Some have kept them for more than fifty years; others have had them in their families from time immemorial, and cherish them as household gods.
Página 95 - I have several times seen such pieces in the savages' hands ; and, since they are superstitious, they keep them as so many divinities, or as presents which the gods dwelling beneath the water have given them, and on which their welfare is to depend. For this reason they preserve these pieces of copper, wrapped up, among their most precious possessions.
Página 255 - June next, all that part of the Indiana Territory which lies north of a line drawn east from the southerly bend, or extreme, of Lake Michigan, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of said lake to its northern extremity, and thence due north to the northern boundary of the United States, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a separate Territory, and be called Michigan.
Página 141 - ... who had never seen anything of the kind. After this confused uproar of voices and muskets had ceased, perfect silence was imposed upon the whole assemblage; and Father Claude Allouez began to Eulogize the King, in order to make all those Nations understand what sort of a man he was whose standard they beheld, and to whose sovereignty they were that day submitting.
Página 369 - The State shall not be a party to, or interested in, any work of internal improvement, nor engaged in carrying on any such work, except in the expenditure of the grants to the State of land or other property.
Página 100 - ... a net made in the form of a pocket, into which the fish are made to enter. One must look for them as they glide between the Rocks, pursue them when they are seen; and, when they have been made to enter the net, raise them with a sudden strong pull into the canoe. This is repeated over and over again, six or seven large fish being taken each time, until a load of them is obtained.
Página 353 - ... and it never by common consent had been abrogated or changed.