[18] The Old Northwest, p. 25. A novel, The Road to Frontenac, presents a clear picture of French-Iroquois hostility on the St. Lawrence.
[19] Hennepin's exaggerations add a spice to his marvellous stories as is true of Arabella B. Buckley's The Fairyland of Science (p. 122) wherein we read: "The river Niagara first wanders through a flat country and then reaches the Great Lake Erie in a hollow plain. After that it flows gently down for about fifteen miles and then the slope becomes greater and it rushes on to the Falls of Niagara." Every age has its Hennepins!
[20] Discovery of the West, pp. 115-16.
[21] The exact spot of building is the subject of a monograph The Shipyard of the Griffon by Cyrus Kingsbury Remington (Buffalo, N. Y. 1891), in which the author, while advocating his own theory, presents liberally views held by those in disagreement with himself. We find O. H. Marshall in accord with Mr Remington that what is known as the "Old Ship Yard" or Angevine place, at La Salle, was the site of the building of the Griffon.
[22] The Narrative is given in full with careful introduction and explanations in Marshall's Writings, pp. 123-186.
[23] A most thrilling account of this fort-building effort at the mouth of the Niagara is to be found in Severance, Old Trails of the Niagara Frontier, on which the present writer has based his description here given.
[24] Colonial Documents of New York, vol. ix., p. 773; in the history of the French régime at Niagara special acknowledgment must be made to Porter's Brief History of Old Fort Niagara (Niagara Falls, 1896), which is particularly rich in references to the important sources of information concerning the French along and at the mouth of the Niagara River.
[25] Colonial Documents of New York, vol. ix., pp. 952, 958.
[26] Logstown?
[27] In the author's Historic Highways of America, vol. iv., chap. 2, this whole problem is discussed and Cumberland's instructions quoted.