We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?