. Historic towns of the Southern States. st writtendown. Naught to the north but Canada andthe Great Lakes ; to the east, the Atlantic sea-board with its mere fringe of English settle-ments fenced in by impassable mountains ; tothe west, mountains again, and illimitableprairies, covered over by bounding , lay the Gulf of Mexico with Floridaon the one side, Mexico on the other. Fromone of the Great Lakes at the north. LakeMichigan, to the Gulf of Mexico at the south,comes through the blank expanse of paper, thehuge, black serpent line of the Mississippitwisting and curving through,
. Historic towns of the Southern States. st writtendown. Naught to the north but Canada andthe Great Lakes ; to the east, the Atlantic sea-board with its mere fringe of English settle-ments fenced in by impassable mountains ; tothe west, mountains again, and illimitableprairies, covered over by bounding , lay the Gulf of Mexico with Floridaon the one side, Mexico on the other. Fromone of the Great Lakes at the north. LakeMichigan, to the Gulf of Mexico at the south,comes through the blank expanse of paper, thehuge, black serpent line of the Mississippitwisting and curving through, a triumph of theartist, its great valley, pictured from mountainrange to mountain range, teeming with Indianvillao-es, fields of wavinof corn, droves of innu-merable deer, and illimitable forests. At thehead of navigation lay the little village of New Orleans 413 Chicagou, about midway the little strongholdof St. Louis, at the terminus New Orleans ;the three names linking together across thedistance two hundred years ago even TOMB OF AVAR, CITY PARK. De Soto first conceived the project of found-ing a settlement upon the Mississippi River,his Rio Grande. As he lay stricken with feverupon its banks within sight of its majestic cur-rents, his mind dwelt upon the glory of annex-ing the great stream and its territory to Spain,the souls of its peoples to the Catholic his couch, he urged forward the buildingof the ships to be sent to Havana for the 414 New Orleans necessary supplies ; with dying ears he listenedto the sound of the busy axes and hammers,and with dying voice he charged upon his menthe accomplishment of what would turn allthe suffering and loss of their expedition intobrilliant success and ensure his fame and theirsto all time. But the Spaniards, sinking the body of theircommander beneath the turbid waters of theMississippi, sank there too his plans and am-bitions, and, turning their backs upon the river,recked not that Spain should gain or lose i
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