Labels:bulletin board | clock | daily | earth | grass | person | silver screen | sky | tree | windowpane OCR: SAIVIS AND TERRITORIFS. 'SIONITTI ILEINOIS JLLINOIS. This comparatively young uember of the American Union was Dever- theleas, rurtially settled by civilized adventurets, eariy the yenr 1073. party of enterprising Frenchmen from Canada accompanied le 1 SalIe in his exploration of the country IT the aboyc year when in search of the River Mississippi, and papundy the il- lages of Kas kaskias and Cahokia These getilementa continued flourish for some year but the people by constant intcreonrse with the surrounding savages, gradually .reduced themselves to Eemi-barbarors condition, and for long period their mumbers were but little tugmented immigration. the treaty of peace between the French tnd Eng}ish 1701, thre Ilinois country: torether with Canada ceded Ay the former to the lattor, who took ...
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