[16] Documentary History of New York, vol. ii, p. 868.
[17] Sylvester’s Northern New York, p. 289; Céloron’s Journal in Darlington’s Fort Pitt, p. 12.
[18] Sir William Johnson’s Journal, October 1, 1761; cf. Severance’s Old Trails of the Niagara Frontier, p. 40.
[19] These names were copied from Nolin’s “Carte du Canada” (1756) and Bellin’s “Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France” (1755), both in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
[20] Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. xl, p. 219. The St. Lawrence proved less easily navigated when it became better known.
[21] Id., note 10 (page 257).
[22] Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. lxix, p. 161.
[23] Described in Historic Highways of America, vol. iii, pp. 74-78.
[24] Sparks’s Writings of Washington, vol. ii, p. 21.
[25] Royal Orders to Braddock, Historic Highways of America, vol. iv, pp. 47, 48.