Author: Illinois State Historical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-22

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780266596134

Excerpt from Papers in Illinois History and Transactions for the Year 1940 The rivers that meet in Egypt bore upon their unmapped waters the canoes of French explorers who first recorded the marvels Of the Illinois Country. Lasalle passed that way in February, 1682 on his way to discover the mouth of the Missis sippi and to take possession of the river valley for France. Jolliet and Marquette were the first Europeans to _see the Upper Mississippi as it rolls along beside the Illinois bluffs and swallows in its murky flood the clear waters of the Ohio. Father Mar quette' 5 account of their 1673 trip furnishes our first description of many southern Illinois landmarks. 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.