Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of (14761748894)

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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country

Year: 1872 (1870s)

Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890

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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton

Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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who lived uponits shores when the Jesuit missionaries first visited the country, two centuries agoEvery thing connected with the Eries, who have left only a name behind them, is in-volved in obscurity. They were a powerful tribe; they stood at the head of that THE SOUTH SHORE OF TAKE ERIE. 59 remarkable confederacy called the Neutral Nation; their principal towns were near thesite of Buffalo, but they .also roamed along the entire south shore, and had their fast-nesses on its western islands. Suddenly came the Iroquois from the East, and extermi-nated them, man, woman, and child, in one day. Such is the tradition. But the nameof the poor Cat tribe has lived after them ; Erie the lake, Erie the town, Erie thecanal, and Erie the railroad, have been in mens mouths ever since. Old Time has hislittle compensations, after all. The city of Buffalo, taking its name from the American bison who roamed in herdsalong the shore as late as 1720, lies at the eastern end of Lake Erie. The neighboring

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Main Light, at Erie. post of Niagara v/as, however, of more importance in the early days of the frontier.Here, in 1769, La Salles men had built the Griffin. During the long winter, with thefrozen river lying before them like a plain paved with polished marble, the French-men, with their rude tools, sawed and hammered on the timbers they had cut from theforest. At last, on the 7th of August, all was ready; and, to the combined sound ofa Te Deum and an arquebuse, the first vessel entered the waters of Lake Erie. Singu-larly enough, the little Griffin, after sailing safely through the unknown seas as far asGreen Bay, and encountering gales on Huron and Michigan, came back to lay hertimbers under the waters of Erie. She passed what is now Detroit, and entered thelake, but was never seen again. Where she went down, no one knows. 520 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. • Buffalo was first settled in 1801, Previous to this date there had been one or twotrading-cabins and a stockade fort on the creek, whe

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