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Title: The Saint Lawrence basin and its border-lands; being the story of their discovery, exploration and occupation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dawson, Samuel Edward, 1833-1916
Subjects: Canada -- History To 1763 (New France) Saint Lawrence River Valley -- History New France -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Toronto : Musson Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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inp^. and indomitable. No enterprise appalled himby its mas^nitude and no complication of misfortune couldcrush him. He was not amiable, nor had he the power ofattaching men to himself by syinpathy, or of awakeningenthusiasm in his followers; yet he won the respect ofthe Indians and was the object of the unbounded friend-ship and fidelity of one Frenchman to so remarkable adegree that to find a parallel to the devotion of Henri deTonty to La Salle we must go back to the history of Jona-than and David. The distrustful and taciturn La Sallewas no David, yet he had the power of impressing menhigh in rank with the importance of his schemes. Incarrying out his ))lans, however, he had not the necessaryjjcrsonal magnetism which secures obedience, fidelity, andaid, for no man can carry out a great enterprise single-handed. The fickleness appreiiended by Galinee at. thecommencement of the voyage was rather intractabilitythan inconstancy. La Salle was a favourite of the Seminary of St. Suipice,
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JOLLIET AND LA SALLE 351 and as seigneurs of the island of Montreal they gavehim, in the year of his arrival, a grant of land west of thecity, just at the head of the rapids—Sault St. Louis, orLachine Rapids of to-day. There was at that time noroad, save the trail beside the river, and there were nosettlers. It was prairie on the lower level, and where theland rises at the entrance to the present canal the forestcame down to the waterside. La Salle commenced clear-ing, built a house for himself and obtained a few settlers;but the broad avenue of Lake St. Louis led his thoughtsfar away into the mysterious west. Some Seneca Indiansstayed with him during the winter of 1668-69 ^d toldhim of the Ohio, a great and beautiful river of the Westaccessible from their country. The course of his life wasdecided. He disposed of all his property and improve-ments and applied the proceeds to a new enterprise. Hepresented to the Governor, De Courcelles, his plan ofexploration, and the Governor persu

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