The French in the Heart of America
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Whatever the significance of that symbol has been to the people of France, it has a peculiar appropriate- ness (probably never realized before) in the fact that the iron, cordage, and anchors for the first vessel which sailed upon the inland waters of the new world were carried out from France to the first shipyard, beyond the mountains, in the midst of the forest, above the mighty Falls of Niagara. Jason of Thessaly, sailing for the Golden Fleece in Colchis, and braving the fiery breath of the... dragon, did not undertake a more perilous or more difficult labor than he who bore from the banks of the Seine the equipment of a vessel in which to bring back to France, as he hoped, the fleece of the forest and the plain. We are accustomed to call those who crossed the plains and the Rocky Mountains for the gold-fields of California nearly two centuries later (in 1849) the 198 THE FRENCH IN THE HEART OF AMERICA Argonautae; but the first American Argonauts went from France, and they built their Argo on what is now Lake Erie, on the edge of the Field of the Bulls, near a place, grown into a beautiful city, which now bears the very name of the wild bull, the "buffalo, " and within sound of the roaring of the dragon that had frightened all earlier explorers.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Whatever the significance of that symbol has been to the people of France, it has a peculiar appropriate- ness (probably never realized before) in the fact that the iron, cordage, and anchors for the first vessel which sailed upon the inland waters of the new world were carried out from France to the first shipyard, beyond the mountains, in the midst of the forest, above the mighty Falls of Niagara. Jason of Thessaly, sailing for the Golden Fleece in Colchis, and braving the fiery breath of the... dragon, did not undertake a more perilous or more difficult labor than he who bore from the banks of the Seine the equipment of a vessel in which to bring back to France, as he hoped, the fleece of the forest and the plain. We are accustomed to call those who crossed the plains and the Rocky Mountains for the gold-fields of California nearly two centuries later (in 1849) the 198 THE FRENCH IN THE HEART OF AMERICA Argonautae; but the first American Argonauts went from France, and they built their Argo on what is now Lake Erie, on the edge of the Field of the Bulls, near a place, grown into a beautiful city, which now bears the very name of the wild bull, the "buffalo, " and within sound of the roaring of the dragon that had frightened all earlier explorers.
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