While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.


The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (ed. 1906)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,......

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,......

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,......

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,......