A history of the American nation . the monarch of France. The settle-ments along the St. Lawrence were strictly ruledby edict and royal order. They knew nothing of self-govern-ment or of self-taxation. The colony was not neglected, butcared for by the home Government. There was no chance forthe development of men, for practice in politics, for the other hand, as a contrast to this iron rule were otherinfluences in Canada. The fur trade charmed away from the Part of a The French buriedthese plates at theriver mouths thatthey discovered tomark their claim toall the
A history of the American nation . the monarch of France. The settle-ments along the St. Lawrence were strictly ruledby edict and royal order. They knew nothing of self-govern-ment or of self-taxation. The colony was not neglected, butcared for by the home Government. There was no chance forthe development of men, for practice in politics, for the other hand, as a contrast to this iron rule were otherinfluences in Canada. The fur trade charmed away from the Part of a The French buriedthese plates at theriver mouths thatthey discovered tomark their claim toall the land drainedby the rivers contrasted withFrench. FRANCE AND ENGLAND—1608-1763 103 settlements many restless fellows, who, breaking over the re-strictions of the home Government, which tried from the officesof Paris to control the details of the fur huntingof America, wandered off into the West and en-gaged in the lucrative trade. A picturesque element werethese rollicking boatmen and rangers of the wood, threading The fur TE Getstxral;]^:^ de Catjada a petit poi^jt Reproduced from La Hontans Voyages, i 703 the rivers of the western wilderness, bartering for furs withthe redman, or making little settlements in the interior alongthe rivers that flow into the Lakes, and even beside those thatfind their way southward to the Gulf. Thus the contrast be-tween the English and French colonists was strong, and theresult of seventy years of war would show which nation hadthe sounder and better colonial system and the greater in-herent strength. Three times between the Revolution of 1688 and the mid-dle of the next century, France and England were at war; threetimes the English colonists took up arms in hopes of drivingthe Frenchmen from American soil, and three times they failed.^ ^ In Europe the war from 1689-97, called in the colonies King Wil-liams War; the second, the war of the Spanish succession, called in America 104 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION But English settlers wer
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