TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE[Dedication]v[Publisher’s Note]vi[Historical Introduction]1[Biographical Notice of Joutel]27[Original Title Page in facsimile]31[The French Bookseller to the reader]33[The Preface written by Sieur de Mitchell]47[Joutel’s Journal with notes and annotations]53[Remainder of Letter by he who revis’d this Journal, being sequel to same]203[Letters Patent granted by the King of France to M. Crozat]212[Bibliography of “The Discovery of the Mississippi,” by Appleton P. C. Griffin]221[Index]241