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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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eur, of gold and silver, ofadventure and danger, not unlike the dreams of the first white men on the shores ofMexico. The long coast, the arc of the bow, is even now but vaguely known, for,although a few settlements have been made where silver exists, they are ^but dots onthe line, and the map-makers are obliged either to leave their paper blank, or fill it upfrom imagination and the vague stories of the hunters. The veil of mystery adds, no LAKE SUPERIOR. 405 doubt, a charm; but, nevertheless, the surveys, as far as they have gone, verify the vi-sions, and the silver sent down to the lower-lake towns fairly exceeds the descriptions ofthe discoverers. Until within a few years the north shore has been traversed only by the hunters,trappers, and voyageurs of the Hudsons Bay Company; more than half of its length istheir rightful territory, and scattered along its line are several of their forts, with theirmotley inhabitants. This company was formed in London in 1669, under the leadership
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Temperance Harbor. of Prince Rupert, and afterward obtained a charter from Charles II., granting the soleright of trading in all the country watered by rivers flowing into Hudsons Bay; thisright was soon stretched until it included the whole of British America, and as muchof the United States as the hunters found convenient. There were four departments:the Northern, which embraced the icy region near the arctic circle; the Eastern, alongthe St. Lawrence and its tributaries; the Southern, lying on the shore of Lake Superior;and the Western, v/hich took in the immense country west of the Saskatchewan, as faras the Pacific Ocean and the Columbia River, where John Jacob Astor made his brave 4o6 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. fight, single-handed, with the vast corporation, and failed, solely on account of the inca-pacity or infidelity of his agents. All through the north coasts of Superior roamed the company hunters; along thehundreds of little lakes and streams the voyageurs paddled their canoes,

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