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of Lake Huron. They formed, as it were, an 

 island in the vast expanse of Algonquin population, 

 extending from Hudson's Bay on the north to the 

 Carolinas on the south ; from the Atlantic on the 

 east to the Mississippi and Lake Winnipeg on the 

 west. They were Algonquins who greeted Jacques 

 Cartier, as his ships ascended the St. Lawrence. 

 The first British colonists found savages of the 

 same race hunting and fishing along the coasts and 

 inlets of Virginia; and it was the daughter of an 

 Algonquin chief who interceded with her father 

 for the life of the adventurous Englishman. They 

 were Algonquins who, under Sassacus the Pequot, 

 and Philip of Mount Hope, waged war against 

 the Puritans of New England; who dwelt at 

 Penacook, under the rule of the great magician, 

 Passaconaway, and trembled before the evil spirits 

 of the White Hills ; and who sang aves and told 

 their beads in the forest chapel of Father Rasles, 

 by the banks of the Kennebec. They were Algon- 

 quins who, under the great tree at Kensington, 

 made the covenant of peace with William Penn ; 

 and when French Jesuits and fur-traders explored 

 the Wabash and the Ohio, they found their val- 

 leys tenanted by the same far-extended race. At 

 the present day, the traveller, perchance, may find 

 them pitching their bark lodges along the beach 

 at Mackinaw, spearing fish among the rapids of 

 St. Mary's, or skimming the waves of Lake Supe- 

 rior in their birch canoes. 



Of all the members of the Algonquin family, 

 those called by the English the Dela wares, by the 



