commerce across the wilderness was sternly refused.
From the mines of Louisiana it was still hoped to
1714 obtain great quantities of gold and silver; and for many years the hope agitated France with vague but confident expectations.
Two pieces of silver ore, left at Kaskaskia by a traveller from Mexico, were exhibited to Cadillac as the produce of a mine in Illinois; and, elated by the seeming assurance of success, he hurried up the river, to be, in his turn, disappointed,—finding in Missouri abundance of the purest ore of lead, but neither silver nor gold.
For the advancement of the colony Crozat accomplished nothing.
The only prosperity which it possessed grew out of the enterprise of humble individuals, who had succeeded in instituting a little barter between themselves and the natives, and a petty trade with neighboring European settlements.
These small sources of prosperity were cut off by the profitless but fatal monopoly of the Parisian merchant.
The Indians were to
Increase, II. 434; III. 71, 83, 89, 375.
Mayhew, II. 97.
Melendez, I. 66.
Mermet, Father, III. 198.
Mesnard, Father Rene, III. 144.
Lost among the Chippewas, 147.
Miamis, III. 240.
Miantonomoh, I. 361, 423, 424.
Michigan visited by Jesuits, III. 128, 152, 155.
French in, 194.
Micmacs, III. 237.
Milborne, III. 52.
Executed, 54.
Miller, governor of Carolina, II. 156.
Miruelo Diego, I. 34.
Mississippi company, III. 350, 354.
Mississippi River discovered, I. 51; III. 157.
Mississippi State, Soto in, I. 51.
French settlement, III. 201, 349.
Events in, 366.
Missouri visited by De Soto I. 52.
The French, III. 159.
Mobile, Soto at, I. 48.
Settled, III. 205, 206.
Mobilian language, III. 249.
Mohawks, II. 417.
Mohegans, I. 423.
Monk, Duke of Albemarle, II. 28.
Montreal, I. 21: III. 127, 179.
Moravians, III. 423.
Morris, III. 454.
Muskhogees, III. 250.
Relations with Georgia, 420, 434.
Muskhogee-Chocta, III. 249.