...papers in the Lachine Rapids, remarks this very great and important advantage hardly to be believed. " It would only be necessary to make a canal by cutting through half a league of prairie, to pass from the foot of the lake of the Illinois [Michigan] to the River...

...which perhaps will hardly be believed. It is that we could go with facility to Florida in a bark, and by very easy navigation. It would only be necessary to make a canal, by cutting through but half a league of prairie, to pass from the foot of the lake of the Illinois to the river Saint...

...Father Dablon's narrative. He writes again : " We could go with facility to Florida in a barque and with very easy navigation. It would only be necessary to make a canal by cutting through but half a league of prairie to pass from the foot of the lake of Illinois [Michigan] to the river...

...from the discovery which he said " would hardly be believed " namely, that " we could go with facility to Florida, in a bark, by very easy navigation. It...only be necessary to make a canal by cutting through but half a league of prairie, to pass from the foot of the Lake of the Illinois (Michigan) to the River...

...discovery he drew attention to the feasibility of passing from Lake Erie to Florida "by cutting a canal through only half a league of prairie to pass from...the Lake of the Illinois (Michigan) to the River of Saint Louis (the Illinois). This project after more than 230 years was revived in 1907. Dablon founded...

...report he said, with the insight of the prophet : "We could easily go to Florida in a ship, and with very easy navigation. It would only be necessary to make a canal by cutting through but half a league of prairie to pass from the foot of the lake of the Illinois (Michigan) to the River...

...advantage which hardly will be believed. It is that we could go with facility to Florida in a bark, and by very easy navigation. It would only be necessary to make a canal, by cutting through but half a league of prairie to pass from the foot of the lake of the Illinois to the river St Louis.*...

...which perhaps will hardly be believed. It is that we could go with facility to Florida in a bark, and by very easy navigation. It would only be necessary to make a canal by cutting through but half a league of prairie, to pass from the foot of the Lake of the Illinois [Lake Michigan] to...

...Father Dablon's narrative. He writes again : " We could go with facility to Florida in a barque and with very easy navigation. It would only be necessary to make a canal by cutting through but half a league of prairie to pass from the foot of the lake of Illinois [Michigan] to the river...