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noun

Sa·mu·el de

[sam-yoo-uh

l duh; French sa-my-el duh] , 1567–1635, French explorer in the Americas: founder of Quebec; first colonial governor 1633–35.

a lake between New York and Vermont. 125 miles (200 km) long; about 600 sq. mi. (1550 sq. km).

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Champlain¹ (ʃæmˈpleɪn)

—n
	Lake Champlain a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times

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Champlain² (ʃæmˈpleɪn, French ʃɑ̃plɛ̃)

—n
	Samuel de (samyɛl də). ?1567--1635, French explorer; founder of Quebec (1608) and governor of New France (1633--35)

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"It must be confessed that the Pilgrims possessed but few of the qualities of the modern pioneer. They were not the ancestors of the American backwoodsmen. They did not go at once into the woods with their axes. They were a family and church, and were more anxious to keep together, though it were on the sand, than to colonize a New World.... It is true they were busy at first about their building, and were hindered in that by much foul weather; but a party of emigrants to California or Oregon, with no less work on their hands,—and more hostile Indians,—would do as much exploring the first afternoon, and the Sieur de Champlain would have sought an interview with the savages, and examined the country as far as the Connecticut, and made a map of it, before Billington had climbed his tree.... Nevertheless, the Pilgrims were pioneers, and the ancestors of pioneers, in a far grander enterprise."

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