CONTAINING ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE COUNTRY BY JAMES HALL. VOLUME I. CINCINNATI: HUBBARD AND EDMANDS. 1834. DM Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1834. BY HUBBARD AND EDMANDS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Ohio, N. S. Johnson, Printer. CONTENTS. French Settlements - discovery of the Mississippi valley-mission- aries-La Salle's voyages-grants to Crozat and others- Fort Chartres - villages - manners of the French settlers-an- French Settlements - St. Louis - French grants - Spanish grants Early Civil and Political Institutions-counties organized-dis- contents-foreign intrigues - views of the French government |