The history of the Louisiana purchase . of hands toget it. In his disappointment and failure hispatience and good humor are pathetic. Ifsustained, as has been said, he would have 9 History of The Louisiana Purchase colonized from Canada to Florida, or in tlieother direction to the sources of the Missis-sippi. He died bound to his rock, and notuntil a generation had passed did a manappear to take up his work. In 1666 Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle, came to Xew France, a scion of a noblehouse in Rouen, in whom strength and weak-ness were picturesque-ly blended. He was atruer type of a Frencha
The history of the Louisiana purchase . of hands toget it. In his disappointment and failure hispatience and good humor are pathetic. Ifsustained, as has been said, he would have 9 History of The Louisiana Purchase colonized from Canada to Florida, or in tlieother direction to the sources of the Missis-sippi. He died bound to his rock, and notuntil a generation had passed did a manappear to take up his work. In 1666 Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle, came to Xew France, a scion of a noblehouse in Rouen, in whom strength and weak-ness were picturesque-ly blended. He was atruer type of a Frenchadventurer than Cham-plain, for in him thefoibles of the class wereplain, as they were notin the founder of Que-bec. La Salle was tofound something fargreater, and needed forthe task the power ofbeholding enkindling visions, an indomitablecourage, and a resourceful intelligence. Hefailed of thorough success largely because, onaccount of vanity and unamiability, he rousedthe enmity of his co-workers instead of win-nino; their His old seigniory on 10 How Louisiana Came to Be tbe St. Lawrence, La Chine, still commemo-rates in its name tlie soaring enthusiasm whichled him into the belief that the broad riverabove the chute w^as the pathw^ay to dream of reaching China he was forcedto abandon, though his foot pressed far onthe road which, two hundred years after histime, came to be held the shortest way thither;but he almost made actual a vision scarcelyless bold. Discovering the Ohio, traversingthe Great Lakes, first of white men descend-ing the Mississippi to its mouth, it was hewho in 1682 gave the name Louisiana to thevast region lying east and west of the greatriver—the Mississippi Valley, in fact—andtook possession of it in the name of his sov-ereign. He w^as able to map out fairly thegreat domain into which he had penetrated,and conceived the thought long cherished byhis successors, of running a chain of postsfrom the St. Lawa^ence strongholds to thec
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