Samuel De Champlain
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Excerpt from Samuel De Champlain: A Brief Sketch of the Eminent Navigator and Discoverer the Chicago Historical Society, Tuesday Evening, October 20, 1885 From the enlarged notes of a work now in preparation by myself and intended for publication, to be entitled "Our Inland Seas and Early Lake Navigation," I will, with your leave, read a sketch, or rather an imperfect outline portrayal, of the movements in the life of the first white man who came within the basin of the great American Lakes; the first European, I may say, that saw and navigated not only the small yet storied body of water drained by the Sorel, but that of Lake Ontario; and who, furthermore, was the first who looked upon the face of Lake Huron. I need not suggest that there is an evident propriety for the Historical Society of the greatest City of the Lakes to pay at least some tribute to the memory of our earliest explorer, who passed over the waters of Lake Ontario more than sixty years before LaSalle built Fort Frontenac by its banks, and more than a quarter of a century before either Joliet or Marquette, the first-known white men at Chicago, were born. I speak of Samuel de Champlain. Though James Cartier, in 1535, passed up the St. Lawrence River as far as the Island of Hochelaga, to which he gave the name of Monte Royal, yet singular as it seems, he nor any other European, as far as we know, never reached any of our great Lakes for three-fourths of a century succeeding. 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.
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