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Identifier: magazineofamericv26stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ual in thrilling inter*miracle and illusion through which the foundation of the preMontreal was laid a hundred years afterward this Indian town was built in the ton- rele, I trtified with palisades, and rain, whi ttled chars •id their comparative civilization. He was conductthrough the quaint , and 1 irned that the name of the place was Hochelaga, H al 1 to the summit of the beautiful mountain, THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 9 which he called Mount Royal, in honor of the king. But long before aneffort was made to found a convent in the wilderness of Canada, this won-derful Indian city had disappeared. Cartier returned to Europe, and fullseventy years passed before Champlain made his voyage up the St. Law-rence, finding a bitter war raging between the Indian tribes, but no city.Two aged Indians conducted him to the top of Mount Royal, and relatedas well as they could the ruin of their people. Tradition says that a chiefof the Senecas refused his son permission to marry a beautiful Huron
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A STREET SCENE IN MONTREAL, ISOI. princess with whom he had fallen in love. The maiden was so indignantthat she offered to marry any one of her numerous suitors who would killthe offending Seneca chief. A young Huron warrior fulfilled the condi-tion and won the bride. The consequence was a fierce and long-continuedwar, and the triple-palisaded city was swept from off the face of the earth.The site of this Indian city is by many believed to have been in the vicinityof the English cathedral, as a man excavating for foundations discovered theskeleton of an Indian in sitting posture, with various specimens of Indianpottery. On a more careful search some antiquarians found the rubbish IO I Hi: ROYAJ BTY Ol I a\.\i»a 1k-.i i. had tunc and systematized effort i to the subject, there is little doubt but that the extent of the old town and themode of life «»f it-- p ight have been determined. Champlain mall buildings and a wall of bricks made from local ^\av dep • about the present site o

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