[170] Pontiac, MS.—M’Dougal, MSS. M’Dougal states that he derived his information from an Indian. The author of the Pontiac MS. probably writes on the authority of Canadians, some of whom were present at the council.
[171] Pontiac, MS.
[172] Carver, Travels, 153. Gent. Mag. XXXIV 408.
[173] Memorial of La Motte Cadillac. See Schoolcraft, Oneota, 407.
[174] A high estimate. Compare Rameau, Colonie du Detroit, 28.
[175] Croghan, Journal. Rogers, Account of North America, 168. Various MS. Journals, Letters, and Plans have also been consulted. The most remarkable of these is the Plan Topographique du Detroit, made by or for General Collot, in 1796. It is accompanied by a drawing in water-colors of the town as it appeared in that year. A fac-simile of this drawing is in my possession. The regular fortification, which, within the recollection of many now living, covered the ground in the rear of the old town of Detroit, was erected at a date subsequent to the period of this history.
[176] Tradition, communicated to H. R. Schoolcraft, Esq., by Henry Conner, formerly Indian interpreter at Detroit.
[177] St. Aubin’s Account, MS. See Appendix, C.
[178] Gouin’s Account, MS.
[179] Letter to the writer from H. R. Schoolcraft, Esq., containing the traditional account from the lips of the interpreter, Henry Conner. See, also, Carver, Travels, 155 (Lond. 1778).