Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, 3. ciltF. Hunt, 1840 |
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Sayfa 24
... river upon the earth , taking its rise in the remote north , opens a highway to the ocean through the Gulf of Mexico , for the distance of about three thousand miles , and will be conjoined with the whole line of the lakes when the ...
... river upon the earth , taking its rise in the remote north , opens a highway to the ocean through the Gulf of Mexico , for the distance of about three thousand miles , and will be conjoined with the whole line of the lakes when the ...
Sayfa 26
... rivers , lakes , forests , and Indian camps ; and their impressions , thus colored and distorted , found their way ... river , " and Char- levoix alludes to the " citrons " as growing upon the banks of the Detroit , we are disposed to ...
... rivers , lakes , forests , and Indian camps ; and their impressions , thus colored and distorted , found their way ... river , " and Char- levoix alludes to the " citrons " as growing upon the banks of the Detroit , we are disposed to ...
Sayfa 29
... French government ; and the mass of peltries which were transported from time to time through the lakes along the channel of the Ottawas river , or across the portage of Niagara Falls The Progress of the Northwest . 29.
... French government ; and the mass of peltries which were transported from time to time through the lakes along the channel of the Ottawas river , or across the portage of Niagara Falls The Progress of the Northwest . 29.
Sayfa 30
Ottawas river , or across the portage of Niagara Falls to Montreal and Quebec , poured the bulk of the profits into the hands of the stockholders , or what La Hontan terms the " farmers of the beaver skins , " and left just enough in ...
Ottawas river , or across the portage of Niagara Falls to Montreal and Quebec , poured the bulk of the profits into the hands of the stockholders , or what La Hontan terms the " farmers of the beaver skins , " and left just enough in ...
Sayfa 33
... river Ohio to the United States , on condition that this territory should remain forever a common fund " for the benefit of the Union ; and in 1787 , a frame of government was established for it in the famous " ordinance of 1787. " But ...
... river Ohio to the United States , on condition that this territory should remain forever a common fund " for the benefit of the Union ; and in 1787 , a frame of government was established for it in the famous " ordinance of 1787. " But ...
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