CHAPTER XXXIII.

FRANCE AND THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

The Ottawas, p. 320 — Missions to the Far West; Gareau, 320 — René Mes.

nard, 321 — Alloüez, 323 — Dablon and Marquette, 325 — · Congress at St.

Mary's, 326 — Jesuits in Michigan, Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, 327 — Joliet,

328 — Marquette and Joliet discover the Mississippi, 328 — Death of Marquette,

333 — La Salle at Frontenac, 333 — On Lake Erie, 335 — On the Miami, 335 —

Walks to Fort Frontenac, 336 — Hennepin's Discoveries, 337 — Tonti, 337La

Salle descends the Mississippi, 338 — Colony for Louisiana, 338 — La Salle in

Texas, 339 — Texas a Part of Louisiana, 340 – La Salle departs for Canada, 341

- Is murdered, 342- Fate of his Companions, 343.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

FRANCE CONTENDS FOR THE FISHERIES AND THE GREAT WEST.

American Possessions of France, p. 314 — Alliances; Objects of the War,

345 — Relative Strength of French and English Colonies, 345 — Plans of Hostil-

ity, 347 — Sack of Montreal; War in Hudson's Bay, 347 — Cocheco, 348 —

Pemaquid, 349 — Schenectady, 349 — Salmon Falls, 350 — An American Con-

gress, 350 — Conquest of Acadia, 351 – Expedition against Quebec, 351 — War

on the Eastern Frontier, 353 — Hannah Dustin, 354 – War of the French with

the Five Nations, 355 - Financial Measures, 357 — Peace of Ryswick, 357

Boundaries, 358 – Detroit founded, 359 — Illinois colonized, 360 — Character of

D'Iberville, 363 — Colonization of Louisiana, 365 - Collision with England on

the Mississippi, 365 - Exploring Expeditions, 367 — Settlement on the Mobile,

367.

CHAPTER XXXV.

WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION.

War of the Spanish Succession, p. 369 — Expedition of South Carolina against

St. Augustine, 371 – War with the Spanish Indians, 372 - Attack on Charles-

ton, 372– War with the Abenakis, 373 — Burning of Deerfield, 374 - Mas-

sacre at Haverhill, 376 – Bounty on Scalps, 377 — Conquest of Acadia, 378

- Character of Bolingbroke, 379 -- Plan for conquering Canada, 380 — Sir

Hovenden Walker and General Hill, 380 — Detroit besieged, 383 — France

desires Peace, 386 — Peace of Utrecht, 387 — Balance of Power, 387 — Spain,

Belgium, 388 — Free Ships, Free Goods, 390 — The Assiento, 390 - British

Slave-Trade, 390 — Surrender of Territory to England, 392.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

THE ABORIGINES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

THEIR LANGUAGES.

Cape Breton, p. 393 — LANGUAGES OF THE ABORIGINES, 394 - The Algon-
kin ; Micmacs, Etchemins, 395 — Abenakis, 395 — Pokanokets, 396 · Lenni-

Lenape, Nanticokes, Corees, 396 — Powhatan Confederacy, Shawnees, Miamis,

397 — Illinois, 398 — Chippewas, Ottawas, Menomonies, 398 — Sacs and Foxes,

399 — The Dakota ; Sioux, Winnebagoes, 399 — Huron-Iroquois ; Wyandots,

Iroquois, 400 — Tuscaroras, 401 – The Catawba; Woccons, 401 — The Cher-

okee, 402 — The Uchee, 403 — The Natchez, 403 — The Mobilian; Chickasaws,

404 — Choctaws, Muskohgees, 405 — Numbers, 406 — Character of their Lan-

guage, 408 — Its Letters, its Hieroglyphics, 409- Its Poverty of Abstract

Terms, 410-Its Synthetic Character, 410 — Inferences, 415.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

THEIR MANNERS, POLITY, AND RELIGION.

MANNERS OF THE ABORIGINES, p. 418 – Dwellings, 418 – Marriage, 419 -

The Mother and Child, 419 — - Education, 420 — Condition of Woman, 421 -

Resources, 422 — Hospitality, 423 — Famine, 424 — Treatment of the Sick, the

Aged, 424 — Dress, 424 - POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, 425 — Absence of Law, 426

- Retaliation, 426 — The Tribe, 427 — Its Chiefs, 427 - Its Councils, 428 —

Records, 429 - The Code of War, 430 — RELIGION, 433 – Idea of Divinity, 434

- Origin of Faith, 434 – Manitous, 435 — Sacrifices, 436 — Penance, 437 -

Guardian Spirits, 438 — Medicine Men, 438 — Temples, 440 — Dreams, 440 —

Faith in Immortality, 441 Burials, 441 – The World of Shades, 412 Graves,

443.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

THEIR NATURE AND ORIGIN.

NATURAL ENDOWMENTS, p. 446 — Correspondence of Powers, 447 — Organic

Differences, 448 - Inflexibility, 419 — Uniformity of Organization, 449 — Physi-

cal Characteristics, 450 — Progress of Improvement, 451 - ORIGIN, 451 —

Mounds, 451 — Traditions, 453 — Analogies of Language, 454 – Of Customs,

455 — Israelites, Egyptians, Carthaginians, 456 — Scandinavians, Chinese, 457

- Astronomical Science in America and Asia, 457 — American Culture its

own, 458 — Connection of America and Asia, 459 — The American and Mon-

golian Races, 460.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

COLONIAL RIVALRY OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

House of Hanover; George I., p. 462 — Philip of Orleans, 463 — Walpole, 464

- Fleury, 464 – War with the Yamassees, 465 — Revolution in Carolina, 467 —

It becomes a Royal Province, 468 – Treaty with the Cherokees, 469 — Disputes

with France on the North-east, 470 — Sebastian Rasles, 471 — His Death, 474

- Lovewell's Fight, 474 – Peace with the Eastern Indians, 474 - Bounds on

the Lakes and St. Lawrence, 475 — Oswego, 475 — Claims of England, 476 —

French Forts at Crown Point, at Niagara, 477

CHAPTER XL.

PROGRESS OF LOUISIANA.

Louisiana, p. 479 — The French on the Ohio, 480 – English Jealousy aroused,

480 – Indifference of Walpole, 481 – Vincennes, 481 — Louisiana under Crozat,

482 — The Credit System of Law, 484 — The Mississippi Company, 485 — New

Orleans, 486 – War between France and Spain, 487 — France claims Texas, 487

- Progress and End of the Mississippi Company, 487 — Its Moral, 490 — The

Natchez, 491 — They begin a Massacre, 493 — The Natchez are defeated, 494 —

The Crown resumes Louisiana, 495 — War with the Chickasaws, 495 — D'Arta-

guette and Vincennes, 497 – War renewed, 498 — Louisiana in 1740, 499.

CHAPTER XLI.

TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE HOUSE OF

HANOVER.

Progress of Anglo-American Colonies, p. 500 — Taxation by Parliament, 500

— Regulation of Charters, 501 - Colonial Manufactures repressed, 502— Par-

liament and Colonial Administration, 503 – Carolina, 503 — Pennsylvania, 503

- Virginia, 503 — New Jersey, 503 — New York, 504 – Massachusetts, 504 –

Policy of Sir Robert Walpole, 505 — The Board of Trade on Colonial Commerce

and such Encroachments, 506 — Proposes a New System of Colonial Admin-

istration, 507 — The Charters in Danger, 508 — Dummer's Defence of the Char-

ters, 508 — Advice of Trenchard, 510 — Flight of Shute to England, 510 — The

Duke of Newcastle, 511 – Opinion of Yorke on the Power of Parliament to tax

the Colonies, 512 – New York Assembly and Periodical Grants, 512 - Burnet

succeeded by Montgomery, 513 — Sir William Keith and a New Plan of Colo-

nial Administration, 513 – Burnet in Boston, 513 — Belcher made Governor of

Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 515 — New York and New Jersey, 516 —

Carolina, 517 — Contest on Laws of Inheritance, 519 — Gee on Colonial Trade,

519 – The Restrictive System, 521 — Discrimination in Favor of Southern Colo-

nies, 522 —Of the Islands against the Continent, 523 — Prohibitory Duties for

the Colonists, 524 - Cosby, 524 — The Press, 525 — Clarke in New York, 526

- Walpole and Colonial Commerce, 527 — The Board of Trade urges Strong

Measures, 528 — Paper Money, 529 – Religion in the Colonies, 532 — Beneficent

Measure of Parliament, 533 — Prosperity of the Colonies, 533 — Immigration,

534 — Berkeley, 535 — Education and the Press, 537 – Benjamin Franklin, 538

-Growth of Liberty, 541.

CHAPTER XLII.

BRITISH MONOPOLY OF THE SLAVE-TRADE.

COLONIZATION OF GEORGIA.

Motives of an Historian to write a True History; Test of Truth, p. 544 —

Truth in History can be ascertained, 545 — The Law of Progress, 545 — History

the Record of God's Providence, 545 — Edwards, Vico, Bossuet, 545 — Metro-

politan Monopolists divided, 546 — South Sea Company and the Assiento, 547

England and the Slave-Trade, 547 — Slave Coast, 548 — The Slave in Africa,

548 — The Passage, 549 — The African in North America, 550 — Numbers, 551

- Labors, 551 — Progress; Emancipation, 552 — Conversion did not enfran-

chise, 553 - Color, 554 - Colonies and the Slave-Trade, 554 - England and the

Slave-Trade, 555 – Moral Opinion, 555 — English Legislation, 557 — England

compels the Colonies to admit Negro Slaves, 558 – England and Spain, 559 —

Colonization of Georgia proposed, 560 — Oglethorpe and Imprisonment for

Debt, 560 - Plans a Colony, 561 — Oglethorpe at Savannah, 562 - Council with

the Muskohgees, 563 — Cherokees and Choctaws, 564 — Lutheran Emigrants,

564 — Oglethorpe returns to England, 566 – Land Titles, 567 — Ardent Spirits,

567 — Slaves, 567 - New Emigration, 568 — John and Charles Wesley, 568 –

Whitefield, 569 — Frederica, 570 – Darien, 570 — Contest on Boundaries, 571–

Treaty with Indians, 572.

CHAPTER XLIII.

WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND SPAIN.

Oglethorpe among the Muskohgees, p. 573 — England and English Smugglers,

574- Tale of Jenkins's Ears, 575 — The Convention, 576 — War, 577 — Anson,

577 – Vernon at Porto Bello, 577 — Attack on Carthagena, 579 - III Success,

579 — Oglethorpe invades Florida, 580 — Spaniards invade Georgia, 580 —

Character of Oglethorpe, 581 – Slavery in Georgia, 582 – Fleury averse to

War, 582 – War of the Austrian Succession, 583 – War of France with Eng-

land, 583 — The Pretender, 584 — Frederic II. and Prussia, 585 — War in the

East Indies, 585 — Madras taken, 585 — Behring discovers North-West America,

586 — The Central Provinces undisturbed, 586 – Treaty at Lancaster with the

Six Nations, 587 — Franklin's Volunteer Militia, 588 — New England resolves

to conquer Louisburg, 588 – The Expedition, 589 - Sails to Cape Breton, 590

- Lands at Louisburg, 591 — The Siege, 592— The Surrender, 593 — Ill Suc-

cess of French Fleets, 594- Plan of conquering Canada abandoned, 594 –

Kalm's Opinion, 594 - Impressment of Sailors, 595 – Congress of Aix-la-

Chapelle, 596 - Washington, 597.

COLONIAL HISTORY,

CONTINUED.

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