...though the voyagers were uncertain as to where the pleasant waters would lead them. They glided down the stream " by islands choked with trees and matted with...entangling grape-vines, by forests, groves, and prairies ; under the shadowing trees, between whose tops from afar looked down the bold brow of some woody bluff,"...

...the voyagers were uncertain as to where the pleasant waters, would lead them. They glided down the stream "by islands choked with trees and matted with...entangling grape-vines, by forests, groves, and prairies ; under the shadowing trees, between whose tops from afar looked down the bold brow of some woody bluff,"...

...Wisconsin, upon which they again launched them. iMARKANSEA MARQUETTE'S MAP. JOLIET AND MABQUETTE. " They glided calmly down the tranquil stream, by islands choked with trees and matted with entangling ^rape-vines, by forests, groves and prairies, the parks and pleasure-grounds of a prodigal Nature ;...

...not whither, — perhaps :o the Gulf of Mexico, perhaps to the South Sea or the Gulf of California. They glided calmly down the tranquil stream, by islands choked with trees ind matted with entangling grapevines ; by forests, groves, and prairies, — :he parks and pleasure-grounds...

...Straits of Mackinac. 7. On either hand rolled the prairie, dotted with groves, browsing elk, and deer. 8. They glided calmly down the tranquil stream, by islands choked with trees and matted with entangling vines. ' 9. Before them a wide and rapid current coursed athwart their way, by the foot of lofty heights...

...Straits of Mackinac. 7. On either hand rolled the prairie, dotted with groves, browsing elk, and deer. 8. They glided calmly down the tranquil stream, by islands choked with trees and matted with entangling vines. 9. Before them a wide and rapid current coursed athwart their way, by the foot of lofty heights...

...below, is white with blossoming cherry trees. 3. God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief. 4. They glided calmly down the tranquil stream, by islands choked with trees and matted with entangled vines. 5- Before them a wide and rapid current coursed athwart their way, by the foot of...

...historian, Francis Parkman, helps us to travel in imagination with Marquette and his men down the Wisconsin. "They glided calmly down the tranquil stream, by islands...prodigal nature; by thickets and marshes and broad, bare sand bars; under the shadowing trees, between whose tops looked down from afar the bold brow of some...