The Building of St. Louis
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Excerpt from The Building of St. Louis: From Many Points of View by Notable Persons On a December day of 1763, Pierre Laclede rode to the summit of a gentle hill and looked eastward through the tree tops below to the Mississippi. He turned to Auguste Chouteau, who was beside him, and said: "He was delighted with the situation. He did not hesitate a moment to form there the establishment which he proposed. Besides the beauty of the site, he found there all the advantages that one could desire to found a settlement which might become considerable hereafter." The hill from which the founder viewed the site of St. Louis was where the court-house stands today. It became to two generations a landmark. In the town talk of that early period it was referred to as "The Hill." Auguste Chouteau was a boy of thirteen years and four months. He was wise for his age. He remembered to write in his journal, with firm, careful hand, a narrative of this finding of the site for the settlement. Laclede and the stepson had left the flotilla and the rest of their party in winter quarters at Fort Chartres, forty miles down the river. They had crossed to the Missouri side and had explored thoroughly the country to the bluffs overlooking the Missouri river near its mouth. They had seen what Charlevoix had observed on his voyage forty years before and had described: "I believe this is the finest confluence in the world. The two rivers are much of the same breadth, each about half a league, but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems to enter the Mississippi like a conqueror, through which it carries its white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them. Afterward it gives its color to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down to the sea." Laclede and Chouteau rode southward, leaving the precipitous cliffs of limestone from which they had viewed this union of the Missouri and Mississippi. Their route was over the rolling prairies, then almost devoid of forest growth. 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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