Narrative and Critical History of America, Volume 4Justin Winsor Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 - America |
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Page 18 - An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Documents concerning a Discovery in North America claimed to have been made by Verrazzano.
Page 151 - London printed for Andrew Hebb, and are to be sold at the signe of the bell in Pauls church yard.
Page 154 - The Memorials of the English and French Commissaries concerning the limits of Nova Scotia or Acadia.
Page 342 - Yonnondio, our women had taken their clubs, our children and old men had carried their bows and arrows into the heart of your camp if our warriors had not disarmed them and kept them back, when your messenger, Ohguesse, came to our castles. It is...
Page 409 - Society, the principal design of which should be to collect and preserve whatever may relate to the natural, civil or ecclesiastical History of the United States in general, and of this State in particular, and appointed Mr.
Page 434 - To the South, to the South, for the great and exceeding riches of the Equinoctial; they that seek gold must not go to the cold and frozen North.
Page 224 - ... first explorers passed to the Pigeon river, or as it was called later, the Grand Portage route, along the boundary line between Minnesota and Canada, into the heart of Canada. It was possible to reach the Mississippi from the Great Lakes by the following principal routes:1 1.
Page 296 - With regard to the condition and character of the primitive inhabitants of North America, it is impossible to exaggerate their value as an authority. I should add, that the closest examination has left me no doubt that these missionaries wrote in perfect good faith, and that the Relations hold a high place as authentic and trustworthy historical documents.
Page 421 - Brief and True Narrative of the Hostile Conduct of the Barbarous Natives towards the Dutch Nation; translated by EB O'Callaghan.
Page 456 - ... article of the federal constitution of 1643 just as distinct if not as full provision made by the united colonies for the preservation of local laws and colony rights, as we have in the ninth and tenth articles of the present federal constitution for the preservation of local laws and state rights. At a meeting of the commissioners of the united colonies of New England, September, 1644, the commissioners of Massachusetts moved that Massachusetts should have the first place in naming the colonies,...