[6] Id., vol. viii, pp. 75-77.
[7] Id., vol. xxxix, pp. 47-49.
[8] Id., vol. xii, pp. 117-121.
[9] As outlined in Historic Highways of America, vol. iii, ch. iii. This route of the French to the greater lakes took them away from the Ohio River and long delayed their occupation of the Allegheny and Ohio valleys.
[10] Hinsdale’s Old Northwest, pp. 34-35.
[11] Id., p. 36.
[12] Céloron on his journey to the Ohio in 1749 did not cross Lake Ontario by the same route pursued by his Indian retinue (Céloron’s Journal, in Darlington’s Fort Pitt, p. 11).
[13] William E. Dodge’s Old New York, p. 36.
[14] For a touching instance, see Jesuit Relations ana Allied Documents, vol. lxvi, p. 281.
[15] The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 159.