. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. Sea. Of the £19,000 in duties which were paid on American fursin London, a large part came from Spanish Louisiana, andnearly all from west and north of the lakes. This was partlyoccasioned by the fact that the Spanish traders, so far as theyrivaled the English ones, were obliged to draw their suppliesfrom Montreal, which they paid for in peltries. The Englishwere particularly active on the St. Peter and Des Moines, wherethey came in contac
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. Sea. Of the £19,000 in duties which were paid on American fursin London, a large part came from Spanish Louisiana, andnearly all from west and north of the lakes. This was partlyoccasioned by the fact that the Spanish traders, so far as theyrivaled the English ones, were obliged to draw their suppliesfrom Montreal, which they paid for in peltries. The Englishwere particularly active on the St. Peter and Des Moines, wherethey came in contact with the Sioux. To reach the St. Peterthe English passed from Lake Superior to the Goddard River,thence by a portage of nine miles to the St. Croix, and so tothe Mississippi. They took the Green Bay and WisconsinRiver route to reach the Moins River, which was of lessimportance in this trade than the St. Peter. The English had Xote. —The map on the opposite page is from Guthries New System of Geography in a Hapof the United States agreeable to the Peace of 1783, London, 17S5-92. It shows the supposedislands of Lake Superior and the Grand 470 JAYS TREATY. made their chief depot of supplies at Mackinac, but now that thetreaty was to transfer this post, they were planning to maintaintheir connection with the trans-Mississippi country from Island in the channel connecting Lakes Superior andHuron. Thence to Montreal, their usual route had lain by theold portage to the Ottawa from Lake Huron. Though theportages in this course were numerous, their canoeists couldcount more accurately on the time required in reaching Mon-treal by this course than by that of the lakes, since adversewinds on these waters sometimes delayed their boats, and madetheir arrival too late for shipment to England. Under these circumstances, and knowing that the surrenderof the posts would strengthen the American jurisdiction overthe extreme limits of the Republic, Grenville had stubbornl
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