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prevented by the Gasises iIGisi ianuii'S ~
find the Object ofhis romantic fearch. tie
returned 10 Porto Rico, and there died.
In 1850, Ferdinand de Soss, who had
ssryed under fazarro, aud had teen inveG-
ed with the government CT Caba, iaIed
from .ile HAVANA with comfortable
free, and landing en- ai.e coaa q Florida,
tfaycr(ed meG OF The rivers Which fad IL
70 the Cult of Mexico. Ia 1871, he
croGed the Mlilliilppi river, ard psoceed-
ed wellwasd at.er varioos discoveries
he died MI 54z, leaving The cof,nand 70
Lewis Maicoio. This ofseer ATTEMPTED
to travel BY land, Eouthweit 10 Mexico,
ont meeting many obifaeies selihqpfihed
The enterprise. He came az lenglh TO one
OF the great rivers, dllcoveled by De
Soto and after NUMEROUS hard01;ps and
difficulties, with his army arrived at the
lea IN 1914.
An obicule and unsatisfactory account
Of he remark able adventures and exten-
five discoveries of Fc5aiuaud de Soto,
n,av DC found in l4itt0ry CT Florida,
conpiled by William Roberts, or in the
Sssn'ha OF GarclaAo de lie Vega. This
proved barren enterprise TO the Siani-
ards, who acquired by it no more than
the empty fame Of being the frf diicover-
ers Of the river MihfipPi. Though ex.
tending their diicoveries and conquefts or
the neighboring COATS, which are waihed
by the Mexican fea, YET they did not even
approach the mouth Of thai mighty river,
Or pnr(ue the path opened by the adyen'u-
!ols lpirit Of De Soto.
1t was inthe reign Of Lewis 18th, 70
fertile in great men and magnificent
fchemcs Of ambition, and under the diree-
ton OF that able minifer OF The marine,
Colbert, that new activity was given to
the commerce and naval enterprise of
France. Had the plans formed during
The reign of that monarch and which were
purified by his ipccenors been as fortunate
as they were grear and fplendid, France
would, at this time, have been in condi-
ton to control the deitiny of the two he
miipheres.
No ration has equalled her il the wifi
dom Of her (yfen of colonization, Her
minii1ers, aided by the powerful and Ia.
gacious fociety Of Jefuits, found no diff.
culty in uniting the mott dlaant and "a
wage nations in friendly in,efcoarfe with
he5 traders, ard the active zeal of the milf
ionary, lerved to rivet he chains OF fab-
jetiioa which were prepared to bind ali
The wandering tribes of North America,
to The government OF France.
Thele lchemes are not forgotten, and a
man is now in the place OF The Bourbons,
who, if he had equal rsfources, would be
capable of executing plans, of eqnal mag
nitude and importance.
The fpi,it CT colonization, which had
been for many years relaxed, began to re-
yiye at the cloGe of the 10Th century.
From 1898 to 1870, various voyages
were prolccuted TO that part of North a
merica now called Nova Scotia, and the
let,lements Of Acadia and Qre3ec were
made, which laid the foundation OF the
!osiequcnt power of the French in Canada.
The coantry was called New France, *
a new commercial company was formed,
under the direction of the CarGinI &c
Richlieu and others, for carrying on the
trade and managing its internal con-
ccrns.
New-France had been increafng in po-
pulation and arenglh for many years,
when, in 1910, under the government OF
the Count de Frontenac, & the inheritance
of NJ. Talon, Tome Frenchmen undertook
10 make difcoveries to the weflward.-
Theie adventures learned from the ma
tives, that there was great river TO the
welt, called by fome Nllehailipi, and by
others MiaiGippi, and which, wherever il
might empty itfelf, did not run to the
North orro tha eaff From This inEorma-