Fugitive Essays Upon Interesting And Useful Subjects Relating To The Early History Of Ohio PDF Download

Excerpt from Fugitive Essays, Upon Interesting and Useful Subjects, Relating to the Early History of Ohio The charters of the colonies were broad enough, to be sure, and covered the Frenchman completely with a. Paper title. But the grant of a king three thou sand miles oii, or even the treaties of the Six nations between 1684 and 174 - 1, were little cared for by him. France had actual possession from Quebec to New Or leans; her citizens, her troops, her traders and mis sionaries threaded the woods and the streams of the Canadas and the Western States, from St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. Not a moment since this occupation commenced, to this hour, has the West ceased to be a place of interest. There are all the travels of Marquette, La Salle and their confederates, the dangers of the little establishments called forts, the hardships of artisans and farmers who clustered about them for protection, Indian kindnesses, murders and jealousies, upon which our citizens are still mainly uninf.ormed Then comes the enlargement of Gallic powe1 and influence, till the B1itish crown becomes uneasy, the efforts of the two powers to join the occu pants of the soil to each party, both of whom were intent upon the destruction of their allies, the warning and suspicion of the Indian, the severe wars of the two rival nations upon a ground to which neither had a complete title, the success of British arms, and a thousand reminiscences of the past, belong to the territory we inhabit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.