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Identifier: michiganasprovin01utle (find matches)
Title: Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Utley, Henry Munson, 1836-1917 Cutcheon, Byron Mac, 1836-1908 Burton, Clarence Monroe, 1853-1932
Subjects: Michigan -- History
Publisher: (New York) : The Publishing society of Michigan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y hadlong been a favorite resort of the Indians on account ofthe abundance of fish and game. The neighboring islandbeing in some sort a natural fortification and situateddirectly in the strait between the two great lakes con-stituted a key to the door of migrations in any direction.While Marquette was devoted to his missionary dutiesand profoundly interested in them, he had an activemind and an energetic disposition which did not permithim to be contented with his simple priestly obligations.He was well educated and his vision extended beyondthe horizon line of his frontier mission. Talon had been advised from Paris that the king^was firmly Impressed with the idea that nothing wasmore important for New France than the discoveryof a passage to the South sea, and urged that immediatesteps be taken to explore the country to the westwardof Lake Michigan, then commonly known as the lakeof the Illinois. Talon being obliged by failing healthto return to France communicated his plans to Count
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MICHIGAN AS A PROVINCE 53 Frontenac, the newly arrived governor. AccordinglyJoliet was dispatched upon the westward expedition andat Michilimackinac he found Marquette who had beeninstructed to accompany him. As the season was thenfar advanced further movements were delayed until thefollowing spring. On the 17th day of May, 1673, the ice being out ofthe strait, the two explorers set forth from St. Ignace intwo bark canoes with five French oarsmen and a supplyof provisions. The party coasted along the lowershores of Lake Michigan to Green bay. Thence theypushed on by the way of the Fox river to Lake Winne-bago and thence by Wolf river to its upper waters, froma point upon which they crossed over the divide whichseparates the waters which flow into the Gulf of St.Lawrence from those which flow into the Mexican gulf.They were soon embarked upon the Wisconsin river.Down this stream they floated until they found them-selves upon the broad expanse of the Mississippi. They navigated the Fath

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