...the great Mississippi and erect a chain of forts which would connect and hold for France the country from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi. Here was the great chance for which this adventurous man had longed and for which he had toiled, and...

...century, Louis XV claimed in continental North America an imperial domain stretching two thousand miles from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi, but there were within it only 80,000 white settlers and traders. In the West Indies, there were settlements...

...thoroughly traversed and reports made to both church and state by the Jesuits who had gone over it from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi and from Florida to the Golden Gate, years before. This is true of all of this territory excepting...

...discovery of an outlet to China. Although a boat may be sailed through long rivers and short canals from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi, this fact is hardly thought worthy of mention in these days. A far greater benefit to America and the...

...French power gradually surrounding them with a long chain of forts and military posts, extending from the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi ; in other words, walling in the English with the Appalachian ranges. For, though the charters of several of the colonies...

...the North American continent. In this struggle, lack of cohesion in the French settlements stretching from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi, and effectiveness of British naval supremacy, were determining factors leading to the disappearance...

...with its sparse cordon of forts, missions, and fur posts, in a huge arc of twenty-five hundred miles, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi completely enveloping the English colonies on the Atlantic coast. The English began to realize the...

...with its sparse cordon of forts, missions, and fur po=ls, in a huge arc of twenty-five hundred miles, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi completely enveloping the English colonies on the Atlantic coast. The English began to realize the...

...should not be a onesided, a one-way proposition, but should be both ways, connecting up clear through from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Mississippi, for reasons of national defense as well as all of the other values commercially that may accrue. Mr....

...Lawrence, and render the insulation almost complete. " Of that long depvession of nine hundred miles, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Hudson, the tide-waters cover six hundred and fifty miles ; while, for the remaining two hundred and...