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Excerpt from The Wabash Trade Route in the Development of the Old Northwest One Of the most evident facts in the history Of the French in America is the influence exerted by various waterways in distributing and directing the course of their settlements. W-hen France Obtained control of the lower St. Lawrence, its possession Of the entire basin and Of the Mississippi valley was a logical sequence. With Quebec established, the empire of New France became inevitable. The great waterways led the hardy voyagers continually further inland, though the, implacable hostility of the Iro quois Indians restricted them for a time to the more northern water routes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.