United States

 INFANCY OF MONTREAL. - THE FLOOD. - VOW OF MAISONNEUVE. - PILGRIMAGE. - 
 D'AILLEBOUST. - THE HOTEL-DIEU. - PIETY. - PROPAGANDISM. - WAR. - 
 HURONS AND IROQUOIS. - DOGS. - SALLY OF THE FRENCH. - BATTLE. - 
 EXPLOIT OF MAISONNEUVE.

 FAILURE OF THE JESUITS. - WHAT THEIR SUCCESS WOULD HAVE INVOLVED. - 
 FUTURE OF THE MISSION.

 LE JEUNE'S VOYAGE. - HIS FIRST PUPILS. - HIS STUDIES. - 
 HIS INDIAN TEACHER. - WINTER AT THE MISSION-HOUSE. - 
 LE JEUNE'S SCHOOL. - REINFORCEMENTS.

 IROQUOIS PRISONERS. - PISKARET. - HIS EXPLOITS. - MORE PRISONERS. - 
 IROQUOIS EMBASSY. - THE ORATOR. - THE GREAT COUNCIL. - 
 SPEECHES OF KIOTSATON. - MUSTER OF SAVAGES. - PEACE CONFIRMED.

 LE JEUNE JOINS THE INDIANS. - THE FIRST ENCAMPMENT. - THE APOSTATE. - 
 FOREST LIFE IN WINTER. - THE INDIAN HUT. - THE SORCERER. - 
 HIS PERSECUTION OF THE PRIEST. - EVIL COMPANY. - MAGIC. - 
 INCANTATIONS. - CHRISTMAS. - STARVATION. - HOPES OF CONVERSION. - 
 BACKSLIDING. - PERIL AND ESCAPE OF LE JEUNE. - HIS RETURN.

 UNCERTAINTIES. - THE MISSION OF JOGUES. - HE REACHES THE MOHAWKS. - 
 HIS RECEPTION. - HIS RETURN. - HIS SECOND MISSION. - WARNINGS OF DANGER. - 
 RAGE OF THE MOHAWKS. - MURDER OF JOGUES.

OUR BOUNDARIES. - By the treaty of 1783 our country was bounded on the north by a line (very much as at present) from the mouth of the St. Croix River in Maine to the Lake of the Woods; on the west by the Mississippi River; and on the south by the parallel of 31° north latitude from the Mississippi to the Apalachicola, and then by the present south boundary of Georgia to the sea. [1]

THE WEST. - In 1860 the great West bore little resemblance to its present appearance. The only states wholly or partly west of the Mississippi River were Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas. Louisiana, Texas, California, and Oregon. Kansas territory extended from Missouri to the Rocky Mountains. Nebraska territory included the region from Kansas to the British possessions, and from Minnesota and Iowa to the Rocky Mountains.

THE STATES. - When Washington became President, the thirteen original states of the Union [1] were in many respects very unlike the same states in our day. In some the executive was called president; in others governor. In some he had a veto; in others he had not. In some there was no senate. To be a voter in those days a man had to have an estate worth a certain sum of money, [2] or a specified annual income, or own a certain number of acres. [3]