Historical Oration

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Excerpt from Historical Oration: Delivered at Champlain, N. Y., On the Fourth of July, 1877It was on the morning of the 4th day of J uly, in 1609, that Captain Samuel de Champlain, a, F renchman by birth, and then governor of Canada, accompanied by sixty painted warriors of the Algonquin and Huron tribes, embarked in twenty-four birch-bark canoes, came up the river below where now stands Fort Montoom ery, and entered the waters of our beautiful lake. The appearance of the pale face was the signal for a new era in all these lands thence forth the march of navigation, commerce, and civilization through this valley began, nor ceases with the years.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.