...emblem of eternity,—now sending forward a detachment into the country of the Illinois to prepare the way for his reception. Under the auspices of La Salle, Europeans first pitched a tent at Niagara ; it was he who, in 1679, amidst the salvo from his little artillery, and the chanting of the Te Deum, and the astonished gaze of the Senecas, first launched a wooden vessel, a bark of sixty tons, on ...