. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. n foot, and every league of its waters, he navigated in frail canoesor crazy schooners. Above his tomb, the northern pine should tower ;around it, the Michigan rose and the southern myrtle should mingletheir hues and unite their perfumes. 15. The Cross in the West.—The Illinois missions inaugu-rated by Marquette, were continued by Fathers Allouez, Rasle, andothers. In 1683, the modern Kaskaskia was founded by Father , the daughter of the chief of the Kaskaskias, became a ferventChristian, and her influe
. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. n foot, and every league of its waters, he navigated in frail canoesor crazy schooners. Above his tomb, the northern pine should tower ;around it, the Michigan rose and the southern myrtle should mingletheir hues and unite their perfumes. 15. The Cross in the West.—The Illinois missions inaugu-rated by Marquette, were continued by Fathers Allouez, Rasle, andothers. In 1683, the modern Kaskaskia was founded by Father , the daughter of the chief of the Kaskaskias, became a ferventChristian, and her influence aided much in the conversion of the Gravier remained until 1699. Other missions in the Mississippi Valley followed, and before theclose of the 17th century. Catholicity had made the circuit of thecountry, from Maine to Florida, from Michigan and Wisconsin toLouisiana and Texas. * The Louisiana of La Salle stretched from the Alleghanies to the Rocky Moun-tains : from the Rio Grande and the Gulf, to the furthest sources of the Missouri. STUDY ISrO. 8 NEW 1. Henry Hudson.—The harbor of New York was first visited by Verrazani in 1524. After that, historyrecords no voyage of white man overits waters, until 1609. In the autumnof that year, Henry Hudson, anEnglishman, in the service of Hol-land, while on a cruise in search ofa northwest passage, penetrated theNarroios,^^ crossed the Bay, andsailed up the beautiful stream whichnow bears his name. heney hudson. A few months earlier, Cliamplain, on an expedition into the Iro-quois country, had entered the State from the north, and had discoveredLake Champlain.^ 2. Ten days were spent by Hudson in exploring theriver. When his little bark, tlie Half 3Ioon, had sailed some miles beyond the site of thepresent city of Hudson, the waterbecame shallow, and he sent a boatas far as Albany. Then he retracedhis course to the Bay; and on the4th of October, about the time ofSmiths return to England, he alsoset sail for Europ
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