A history of the American nation . theMississippi had been traversed before the waters of the Ohiowere known. In consequence, for a long time the French andEnglish settlements diverged, the Fiench occupying positionson the Great Lakes and the rivers of the far West long before8 100 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION they dared to come near the English by occupying places imme-diately beyond the mountains. The great and concluding strug-gle between France and England did not come till, under dif-ferent conditions, the authorities of Canada tried to take andhold the strategic points in the eastern p
A history of the American nation . theMississippi had been traversed before the waters of the Ohiowere known. In consequence, for a long time the French andEnglish settlements diverged, the Fiench occupying positionson the Great Lakes and the rivers of the far West long before8 100 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION they dared to come near the English by occupying places imme-diately beyond the mountains. The great and concluding strug-gle between France and England did not come till, under dif-ferent conditions, the authorities of Canada tried to take andhold the strategic points in the eastern portion of the OhioValley. The seventeenth century is a picturesque period in the his-tory of Canada. Bold adventurers and soldiers, brave and patient priests, hardy fur traders and restless rov-e^iorers^^ crs, all did their part in exploring the great West, carrying the lilies of France, the cross of the church,or the brandy and gewgaws of the merchant into the remotesolitudes of the interior. As early as 1634 Jean Nicollet was in. &cux^ The Joliet map here given is probably the earliest map to define the courseof the Mississippi by actual observation, although Joliet connected it withthe Gulf merely by an inference. Confer Winsor, Cartier to Frontenac,p. 247. The above is a simplified sketch of the original Wisconsin and Illinois. A few years later Jesuit priests preachedtheir faith before two thousand naked savages at the falls • ofSte. Marie. Soon after this Allouez began a mission in thissame region, and for thirty years he passed from tribe to tribe inthat far-off wilderness, preaching and exhorting and striving FRANCE AND ENGLAND—1608-1763 101 to implant his faith. Marquette gathered the Indians abouthim at Sault Ste. Marie, and passed even to the farther end ofLake Superior, seeking to win souls for the Church. St. Lusson(1671), at the Sault, with solemn ceremony before a motleyconcourse of braves, proclaimed the sovereign title of the greatmonarch of France to all t
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