... man of to-day, by the "overwhelming,unbending grandeur of the wonderful spirit ruling the flow of the sands, the lumping of the banks, the unceasing shifting of the channel and the send of ... detail in the story of an age of iron succeeding, in a single generation,an age of stone. The splendor of the court and age of Louis XIV was beginning to brighten the sombreness of the northern ... home, gathered the tribes of the west into aconfederacy against the Iroquois, as Champlain had done in the east, gave up for the present the building of the vessel, and in 1681, the river being...