[57]For an interesting discussion of the French attempt during the peace negotiations at the end of the war to establish the Maumee and Wabash rivers as the new boundary between the two colonial empires, see Theodore Pease’s article, “Indiana in Contention between France and England” in the Indiana Historical Bulletin, XII.
[58]“Croghan’s Journal”, Early Western Travels, ed. by R. G. Thwaites, I, 122-23.
[59]Jesuit Relations, LXIX, 189.
[60]Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, XIX, 47.
[61]Ibid., p. 47.
[62]Francis Parkman, Conspiracy of Pontiac, I, 189.
[63]The Journal of Captain Morris as quoted in his Miscellanies in Prose and Verse has been reprinted in Early Western Travels, I, 301-ff.
[64]Captain Thomas Morris, op. cit., p. 312. This prohibition of the sale of liquor to the Indiana was not always as successful as Capt. Morris thought.
[65]“Croghan’s Journal”, Western Travels, I, 149-150.
[66]For the French philosopher Volney’s description of these French Creoles See Below, [p. 34