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Title: The History of Marshall County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the Northwest, history of Iowa, map of Marshall County, constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, etc
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
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Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the Wisconsin,which they descended to the Mississippi and proceeded down its unknownwaters. What emotions must have swelled their breasts as they struckout into the broadening current and became conscious that they werenow upon the bosom of tli3 Father of Waters. The mystery was aboutto be lifted from the long-sought river. The scenery in that locality isbeautiful, and on that delightful seventeenth of June must have beenclad in all its primeval loveliness as it had been adorned by the hand of THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 23 Nature. Drifting rapidly, it is said that the bold bluffs on either hand reminded them of the castled shores of their OAvn beautiful rivers ofFrance. By-and-by, as they drifted along, great herds of buffalo appearedon the banks. On going to the heads of the valley they could see acountry of the greatest beauty and fertility, apparently destitute of inhab-itants yet presenting the appearance of extensive manors, under the fas-tidious cultivation of lordly proprietors.
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THE WILD PRAIRIE. On June 25, they went ashore and found some fresh traces of men uponthe sand, and a path which led to the prairie. The men remained in theboat, and Marquette and Joliet followed the path till they discovered avillage on the banks of a river, and two other villages on a hill, within ahalf league of the first, inhabited by Indians. They were received mosthospitably by these natives, who had never before seen a white person.After remaining a few days they re-embarked and descended the river toabout latitude 33°, where they found a village of the Arkansas, and beingsatisfied that the river flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, turned their course 24 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. up the river, and ascending tlie stream to the mouth of the Illinois,rowed up that stream to its source, and procured guides from that pointto the lakes. Nowhere on this journe3% says Marquette, did we seesuch grounds, meadows, woods, stags, buffaloes, deer, wildcats, bustards,swans, ducks, parroquets, and

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