History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . 676 Strait of Mackinaw in December, and therePere Marquette joined him. In May, nextpear, they paddled their canoes up the FoxRiver and tugged them across the portageinto the Wisconsin, which they descended,entering the Father of Waters June 17,1673. They floated down to the mouth ofthe Arkansas and then returned, their jour-ney back being up the Illinois and Des-plaines Rivers. Joliet gave his name tothe peak on the latter stream which thecity of Joliet, 111., near by, still arrived at Que
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . 676 Strait of Mackinaw in December, and therePere Marquette joined him. In May, nextpear, they paddled their canoes up the FoxRiver and tugged them across the portageinto the Wisconsin, which they descended,entering the Father of Waters June 17,1673. They floated down to the mouth ofthe Arkansas and then returned, their jour-ney back being up the Illinois and Des-plaines Rivers. Joliet gave his name tothe peak on the latter stream which thecity of Joliet, 111., near by, still arrived at Quebec in August, 1674,having in four months journeyed overtwenty-five hundred miles. It thus became known how close theupper waters of the great rivers, St. Law-rence and Mississippi, were to each other,and that the latter emptied into the Gulf ofMexico instead of the South Sea (Pacific) ;yet, as the Rocky Mountains had not thenbeen discovered, it was for long believedthat some of the western tributaries of theGreat River led to that western ocean. In 1676 Raudin, and three years later,. J* 1
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