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TEXAS.
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the Indians. The " kingdoms" (as they have been
pompously styled) of New Leon and New Santander
were created in the year 1595, and the province of
Coahuila, which, be it observed, embraced a considerable
portion of territory east of the Rio Grande, in
1600. It does not appear, however, that any actual
settlement was made by Spain in the country which
in this work is designated Texas Proper, until the
year 1690; and in this tardiness of actual occupation
originated the pretensions of France to the Rio
Grande, as the south-western frontier of Louisiana
-pretensions subsequently revived by the shrewd
and eager diplomatists of the United States, with a
degree of boldness indicative of the consciousness,
on their part, of the ability of the government they
represented, to invigorate the intrinsic weakness of
its claims, by the exercise of a dictatorial power.
In 1672, the French, who had been more than a
century in Canada, had their curiosity awakened
by Indian accounts of a river which, rising in the
neighbourhood of the Great Lakes, flowed through
magnificent forests towards the South. It was
alleged that the forests bordering on this mighty
river had never been trodden by the foot of the
white man. In 1673, an adventurous party set out
from Quebec to trace the course of this monarch
among the North American waters, and descended
the Mississippi (which they named the Colbert) to
the mouth of the Arkansas, one of its tributaries.
On their return to Quebec, the adventurers communicated
the result of their expedition to Count
Frontenac, governor of the colony; and to his successor,
the Sieur de la Salle, who had resided many
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Kennedy, William. Texas: the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas, Vol.1, book, January 1, 1841; London. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2389/m1/264/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .