A history of the American people . ^ way into the Mississippiitself. That stout-hearted pioneer Pere Marquette haddescended the Father of Waters past the Ohio to theoutlet of the Arkansas (1673); ar>d Robert La Sallehad followed him and gone all the long way to thespreading mouths of the vast river and the gates ofthe Gulf (1682), not by way of the Wisconsin, but bycrossing from the southern end of Lake Michigan tothe stream of the Illinois, and passing b\T that way tothe Mississippi. 6 COMMON l NDERTAKINGS And so the lakes and the western rivers and the Mis-sissippi itself saw the French;

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A history of the American people . ^ way into the Mississippiitself. That stout-hearted pioneer Pere Marquette haddescended the Father of Waters past the Ohio to theoutlet of the Arkansas (1673); ar>d Robert La Sallehad followed him and gone all the long way to thespreading mouths of the vast river and the gates ofthe Gulf (1682), not by way of the Wisconsin, but bycrossing from the southern end of Lake Michigan tothe stream of the Illinois, and passing b\T that way tothe Mississippi. 6 COMMON l NDERTAKINGS And so the lakes and the western rivers and the Mis-sissippi itself saw the French; and French posts sprangup upon their shores to mark the sovereignty of the.

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