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Champlain's most conspicuous merit lies in the light that he threw into the dark places of American geography, and the order that he brought out of
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From the Spanish settlements northward to the pole, there was no domestic hearth, no lodgment of civilized men, save one weak band of Frenchmen,
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It was a scheme of high-sounding promise, but in performance less than contemptible. So the first Canadian colonies failed.Our special project
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