...examined the strength and resources of Canada and Louisiana. The position of these colonies, stretching from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, with an almost uninterrupted inland water communication between the extremities of both, seemed to...

...Illinois regions, which were embraced in their vast scheme of forming a chain of posts and settlements from the mouth of the St. Lawrence, to that of the Mississippi. — They did not occupy the country of the Missouri and Illinois, till more than a century after the...

...of the importance of the navigation of that river to their future commerce on the interior waters, from the mouth of the St Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, and thereby render that Court averse to any stipulations with Spain to relinquish it. These two objects...

...begun to colonize, the whole region which liesl at the back of the thirteen original United States, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi ; comprising both the Canadas, and the vast and fertile valley of the Ohio ; and had actually occupied...

...the strength and resources of Canada and Louisiana. — The position of these colonies, stretching from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, with an almost uninterrupted inland water communication between the extremities of both, seemed to...

...made it fall far short of the effect contemplated; so that, although French settlements were extended from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, yet wanting the true progressive impetus, and like exotics requiring unnatural care and protection,...

...source of prosperity to us, to pass out of their hands. From Acadia and Canada to Louisiana,—from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi,...district of Columbia, the territories of Michigan, the North-West, the Missouri, Oregon, and Arkansas, belonged to us, or would have come into our possession,...

...begun to colonise, the whole region which lies at the back of the thirteen original United States, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, comprising both the Canadas and the vast fertile valley of the Ohio ; and had actually occupied the...

...extending along the sea-board from Acadia to Georgia. New France swept round the English colonies, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, whilst the Spanish Floridas intervened between them and the Gulf of Mexico. Within this wide embrace,...

...had begun to colonize the whole region which lies at the back of the thirteen original United States, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to that of the Mississippi, comprising both the Canadas and the vast fertile valley of the Ohio, and had actually occupied the...