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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: less extensive than the whole of Europe. The three greatest
rivers of that continent then flowed within her dominions. The
Indian tribes which dwelt between the mouth of the St. Lawrence
and the delta of the Mississippi were unaccustomed to any other
tongue but ours; and all the European settlements scattered over
that immense region recalled the traditions of our country.
Louisbourg, Montmorency, Duquesne, St. Louis, Vincennes, New
Orleans (for such were the names they bore) are words dear to
France and familiar to our ears.
But a concourse of circumstances, which it would be tedious
to enumerate, *m have deprived us of this magnificent
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