A history of the United States . interior ^^^^ ^^ happened that the French explored theof the Mississippi Valley before the English crossed the reacheTby Alleghanies. Their main route was not by way ofthe Great Lakes Ontario and Erie, but to the headwaters^^ of the Ottawa River, then by portage to Lake Nipissing, then again by water down the French River toGeorgian Bay and so to Lakes Huron, Michigan, andSuperior. The upper Mississippi was first reached through Wiscon-sin by way of the Fox River, but another route was soondeveloped by portage from the headwaters of the ChicagoRiver to the Illi
A history of the United States . interior ^^^^ ^^ happened that the French explored theof the Mississippi Valley before the English crossed the reacheTby Alleghanies. Their main route was not by way ofthe Great Lakes Ontario and Erie, but to the headwaters^^ of the Ottawa River, then by portage to Lake Nipissing, then again by water down the French River toGeorgian Bay and so to Lakes Huron, Michigan, andSuperior. The upper Mississippi was first reached through Wiscon-sin by way of the Fox River, but another route was soondeveloped by portage from the headwaters of the ChicagoRiver to the Illinois, along the line of the present ChicagoDrainage Canal. In the eighteenth century the variousportages leading from the waters of Lake Erie to the OhioRiver came into use, but the earlier development of theseroutes was prevented by the hostility of the Iroquois. The position of the Iroquois in central New York likewiseblocked the natural route leading from Canada to the Hud-son River. As the line of the Hudson is the principal. TRIBES Mississippi The New World 15 break in the long stretch of mountains from Maine to Ala-bama, it was destined to be of great importance from a mili-tary as well as froni a commercial point of view. The line ofIts strategic importance was shown both in the *^® HudsonFrench and Indian wars and in the Revolution. From thepresent site of Albany there was a choice of routes leadingto Canada. One led from the headwaters of the Hudsonby way of lakes George and Champlain to the St. Lawrence,and the other up the Mohawk River and .across by portageto Lake Ontario. Further south, population and commerce were both checkedfor a long time at the heads of navigation, and further prog-ress was delayed until roads were cut across themountains. Toward the beginning of the Revolu- j^^^fo^the**tion the routes connecting the headwaters of the Ohio, Ken-great rivers east of the mountains with the Tennes^eetributaries of the Ohio became of great impor-tance to the whit
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