Historic Notes on the NorthwestH.H. Hill and Company, 1879 - 304 páginas |
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... Peoria ) , Spoon River , Sugar Creek , and finally Crooked Creek . From the south or left bank are successively the Iro- quois ( into the Kankakee ) , Mazon Creek , Vermillion , Crow Meadow , Mackinaw , Sangamon , and Macoupin . The ...
... Peoria ) , Spoon River , Sugar Creek , and finally Crooked Creek . From the south or left bank are successively the Iro- quois ( into the Kankakee ) , Mazon Creek , Vermillion , Crow Meadow , Mackinaw , Sangamon , and Macoupin . The ...
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... Peoria , Knox , Warren , and other counties lying wholly or partially within the " mili- tary tract , " illustrate an increase and uniformity of rainfall since the time Professor Beck recorded his observations . In no part of Illinois ...
... Peoria , Knox , Warren , and other counties lying wholly or partially within the " mili- tary tract , " illustrate an increase and uniformity of rainfall since the time Professor Beck recorded his observations . In no part of Illinois ...
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... back fifty or sixty years , when there were no farms between the settlement on the North Arm Prairie , in Edgar county , and Ft . Clark , now Peoria , on the Illinois River , or between the Salt Works , west of Danville , and 3.
... back fifty or sixty years , when there were no farms between the settlement on the North Arm Prairie , in Edgar county , and Ft . Clark , now Peoria , on the Illinois River , or between the Salt Works , west of Danville , and 3.
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... passed by the Indians of Peoria . I was three days announcing the faith in their cabins , after which , as we were embarking , they brought BIOGRAPHY OF JOLIET . 51 me , on the water's 50 HISTORIC NOTES ON THE NORTHWEST .
... passed by the Indians of Peoria . I was three days announcing the faith in their cabins , after which , as we were embarking , they brought BIOGRAPHY OF JOLIET . 51 me , on the water's 50 HISTORIC NOTES ON THE NORTHWEST .
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... Peoria Lake , and he and Father Zenobe Membre are the historians of that expedition . From Peoria Lake he went down the Illinois , under orders from La Salle , and up the Mississippi beyond St. Anthony's Falls , giving this name to the ...
... Peoria Lake , and he and Father Zenobe Membre are the historians of that expedition . From Peoria Lake he went down the Illinois , under orders from La Salle , and up the Mississippi beyond St. Anthony's Falls , giving this name to the ...
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Página 263 - ... the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Página 231 - Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea; and...
Página 263 - The middle State shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from Post Vincents to the Ohio; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami, to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
Página 92 - Crozat to carry on a trade in all the lands possessed by us, and bounded by New Mexico and by the...
Página 175 - But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women.
Página 47 - I thank thee, Blackgown, and thee, Frenchman," addressing M. Jollyet, "for taking so much pains to come and visit us ; never has the earth been so beautiful, nor the sun so bright, as to-day; never has our river been so calm, nor so free from rocks, which your canoes have removed as they passed; never has our tobacco had so fine a flavour, nor our corn appeared so beautiful as we behold it to-day.
Página 276 - Money, to us, is of no value, and to most of us unknown : and as no consideration whatever can induce us to sell the lands on which we get sustenance for our women and children, we hope we may be allowed to point out a mode by which your settlers may be easily removed, and peace thereby obtained.
Página 84 - In the name of the most high, mighty, invincible, and victorious Prince, Louis the Great, by the Grace of God King of France and of Navarre, Fourteenth of that name...
Página 278 - July next, all that part of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio river, which lies to the westward of a line beginning at the Ohio, opposite to the mouth of Kentucky river, and running thence to Fort Recovery, and thence north until it shall intersect the territorial line between the United States and Canada, shall, for the purposes of temporary government, constitute a separate territory, and be called the Indiana Territory.
Página 290 - I found the ground destined for the encampment not altogether such as I could wish it — it was indeed admirably calculated for the encampment of regular troops, that were opposed to regulars, but it afforded great facility to the approach of savages.