Our great continent; sketches, picturesque and historic: within and beyond the States . ette, a Jesuit mission-ary and explorer, came down the Mississippi from the region of the GreatLakes, and discovered the upper portion of the present State of Louisiana,,but did not plant the seeds of a colony. (See 0/iw.) Late in December, 1681, Robert Cavelier de la Salle, an eaexgetic French: 182 THE GREAT REPUBLIC OF THE WEST: adventurer, after coasting along the southern shores of Lake Michigan incanoes, with other adventurers and servants, entered the Chicago River,crossed by portage to the IlHnois Ri
Our great continent; sketches, picturesque and historic: within and beyond the States . ette, a Jesuit mission-ary and explorer, came down the Mississippi from the region of the GreatLakes, and discovered the upper portion of the present State of Louisiana,,but did not plant the seeds of a colony. (See 0/iw.) Late in December, 1681, Robert Cavelier de la Salle, an eaexgetic French: 182 THE GREAT REPUBLIC OF THE WEST: adventurer, after coasting along the southern shores of Lake Michigan incanoes, with other adventurers and servants, entered the Chicago River,crossed by portage to the IlHnois River, descended to the Mississippi, andwent down that great stream to its entrance into the Gulf of Mexico. Henamed the mighty stream Riviere Colbert, in compliment to the greatminister of Louis XIV., who had encouraged his schemes in America, andwas really his patron. Henri di Tonti, an active Italian, was La Salles lieutenant in this expe-dition. After the three debouching channels of the Mississippi had been•explored, the whole company assembled at an elevated sand dune near the. WILLIAM C. C. CLAIRBORNE, FIRST GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA. Gulf, and there erected a cross, upon which they affixed the arms of France•and this inscription: Louis the Great, King of France and Navarre, April 9, a leaden plate, with a Latin inscription affirming the discovery,was buried near, when La Salle, with uplifted sword, proclaimed the wholeValley of the Mississippi, and the region of its tributary waters, a part of theFrench dominions. He named the vast region Louisiana, in honor of hissovereign, Louis XVI, The imposing ceremony of taking possession of thenewly discovered country was concluded by the signing of tx proces verbal, orofficial report of the affair, by the leader and his companions, in the followingorder: La Materie (notary), De la Salle, P. Zenobe (Recollet missionary), Henri ITS STATES AND TERRITORIES. 183 di Tonti, Francois de Bous-voudet, Jean Bourdon, Sieur dAutray,
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