A history of the American people . ed the Spanish post at Pensa-cola. TTv 1722 there were five thousand Frenchmenby the lower stretches of the great river; and their trad-ing boats were learning all the shallows and currentsof the mighty waterway from end to end. Meantime,in the north, they advanced their power to Lake Cham-plain, and began the construction of a fort at CrownPoint (1721). That same year, 1721, French and Eng-lish built ominously near each other on Cake Ontario,the English at Oswego, the French at Niagara amongthe Senecas. In 1716, the very year Governor Spots-wood rode through
A history of the American people . ed the Spanish post at Pensa-cola. TTv 1722 there were five thousand Frenchmenby the lower stretches of the great river; and their trad-ing boats were learning all the shallows and currentsof the mighty waterway from end to end. Meantime,in the north, they advanced their power to Lake Cham-plain, and began the construction of a fort at CrownPoint (1721). That same year, 1721, French and Eng-lish built ominously near each other on Cake Ontario,the English at Oswego, the French at Niagara amongthe Senecas. In 1716, the very year Governor Spots-wood rode through the western forests of Virginia toa summit of the Blue Ridge, the French had found ashort way to the Ohio by following the Miami and the59 A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Wabash down their widening streams. It was whilethey thus edged their way towards the eastern moun-tains and drew their routes closer and closer to theirrivals on the coast that that adventurous, indomitablepeople, the Scots-Irish, came pouring of a sudden into. OSWEGO IN 1750 the English colonies, and very promptly made it theirbusiness to pass the mountains and take possessionof the lands which lay beyond them, as if the}7 woulddeliberately go to meet the French by the Ohio. For several years after the first quarter of the newcentury had run out immigrants from the north of Ire-land came crowding in, twelve thousand strong by theyear. In 1729 quite five thousand of them entered60 COMMON UNDERTAKING S Pennsylvania alone: and they pressed without hesita-tion and as if by preference to the interior. From Penn-sylvania they passed along the broad, inviting valleyssouthward into the western parts of Virginia. By 1730a straggling movement of settlers had begun to showitself even upon the distant lands of Kentucky. Stillfarther south traders from the Carolinas went constantlyback and forth between the Indian tribes of the countryby the Mississippi and the English settlements at thecoast. Nine thousand redskin war
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