A Memoir On the History And Physical Geography of Minnesota
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The French, who began to settle 120 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS. Canada in 1608, were long- confined to the lower parts of the St. Lawrence, both by their inherent weakness and the en- mity of the Iroquois. The overthrow of the Erie confederacy by the latter in 1653, only served to cramp the French enter- prise, and exposed them more fully to the ire and scrutiny of this rising power. Even thirty years later in their history, the French trading posts still rested at Sault Ste Marie, St. Ig...nace, St. Joseph's, and Michilimackinac. In 1668 CLAUDE ALLOUEZ established a mission near the head of Lake Superior. Five years later, namely in 1673, P. MARQUETTE and M. JULIET entered the Mississippi by the Wisconsin, and explored it downwards to the Illinois. About this period a great mind for its energy and the magnificence of its plans arose in France, in the person of ROBERT DE LA- SALLE, who, if his life had been spared, would have founded a great French empire in the West. It is probable that the ardor of the missionary reports first drew his attention to North America ; but, whatever was the cause, he Avas a man far in advance of his age.
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