Lake Huron, reached by Champlain, 246, 248. Lake Michigan, discovered, 12, 248. Lake Ontario, aborigines on, 10, 11; drainage system, 219, 220; discovered, 248. Lake Superior, early fur-trade on, 18; in Champlain's time, 247; visited by Radisson and Grosseilliers, 247, 248; early French settlement on, 253. La Salle, Chevalier, explorations of, 248. Laud, Archbishop, represses dissent in Massachusetts, 131; in prison, 158. Leeward Islands, English colonies on, 237, 238. Leisler, Jacob, heads a revolution in New York, 206. Leon, Ponce de, explores Florida, 27. Léry, Baron de, colonizing attempt of, 35. Locke, John, his constitution for the Carolinas, 58, 90, 91, 93, 95. London Company, chartered, 66, 113; settles Virginia, 69-74, 81; criticised by James I., 74; grant to the Pilgrims, 116, 117; charter annulled, 74. Long Island, Block's visit, 196; Walloon settlement, 198; conflicts between Dutch and English, 163, 202; Connecticut wins a part, 163; religion on, 229, 230; crime on, 231. Long Parliament, the, Virginia under, 76; Navigation Act of, 105; relation to Massachusetts, 132. Louis XIV., king of France, his colonial policy, 49, 251-253. Louisburg, captured by the English, 255, 278. Ludwell, Philip, governor of South Carolina, 94; and of reunited Carolina, 94. Lutherans, in middle colonies, 230. Louisiana, early French settlement of, 248. Lower California, early Spanish exploration of, 28, 29, 31. Maine, De Monts' colony, 36; visited by Gosnold and Pring, 41; Gorges' proprietorship, 150, 151, 173; characteristics, 150; not in the New England Confederation, 157, 158; absorbed by Massachusetts, 152, 173, 174; Indian uprising, 172, 188; rule of Andros, 175; in King William's War, 177, 254; river system, 179; commerce, 185; agriculture 186; education, 188; population (1700) 180, (1754) 265; boundary established, 268. Maldonado, Lorenzo Ferret de, on the Pacific coast, 28. Manhattan Island, Block's visit, 196; early settlement, 197, 198. _See_ New York City. Marquette, Father Jacques, on Mississippi River, 26, 248. Martha's Vineyard, Indian missionary efforts at, 170.