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Excerpt from La Salle
ON the banks of the St. Joseph River, on the outskirts of the town of South Bend, Illinois, stands to-day an old red cedar tree,1 which once had its roots in French soil. Push away the sand and earth near its base, and you will find on the tough bark the marks made by the broad-bladed axes of the early French explorers, probably La Salle's party, as they blazed the trail from the Great Lakes to the waters ?owing to the Gulf, and claimed all that fair, unknown country for Louis the Fourteenth, by the grace of God King of France and of Navarre.
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