ILLUSTRATIONS

The Rodin Bust “La France”[Frontispiece]
Facing Page
Champlain Memorial Lighthouse at Crown Point Forts[4]
Champlain Group at Crown Point Memorial[4]
Memorial to Samuel Champlain at Plattsburgh[6]
Side View of the Champlain Memorial at Plattsburgh[6]
Champlain Statue at Plattsburgh[8]
Crouching Indian at base of Champlain Statue[8]
Champlain Memorial at Crown Point Forts nearing Completion[12]
Front View of Rodin Bust “La France”[18]
Steamship “France” that transported French Delegation[26]
Banquet to French Delegation, Waldorf-Astoria, May 1, 1912[30]
Governor John A. Mead of Vermont[42]
Ferry Transporting Commissioners and French Delegation[70]
Ambassador Jusserand and French Delegation at Crown Point[72]
Commissioners and French Delegation at Crown Point Forts[72]
French Delegation at Crown Point Memorial, May 3, 1912[74]
M. Hanotaux speaking at Crown Point Forts, May 3, 1912[76]
M. Hanotaux speaking at Crown Point Memorial, May 3, 1912[76]
Landing Troops and Guests at Crown Point Forts, July 5, 1912[120]
Colonel Sanger, Governor Dix and others landing at Crown Point[120]
Unveiling Tablet at Fort Amherst, July 5, 1912[126]
Tablet unveiled at Fort Amherst, July 5, 1912[128]
Colonel Sanger, Governor Dix and Staff approaching Memorial, July 5, 1912[132]
Champlain Memorial Lighthouse, July 5, 1912[134]
Governor John A. Dix speaking at Crown Point Memorial, July 5, 1912[136]
Colonel William C. Sanger speaking at Crown Point Memorial[140]
Adjutant-General Verbeck, Count and Countess de Peretti de la Rocca[142]
Parade in Plattsburgh, July 6, 1912, escorted by 5th U. S. Infantry[158]
Governor Dix, Lieutenant-Governor Conway, Colonel Cowles, Commissioners Knapp and Riley[158]
Governor John A. Dix[162]
Miss Katharine M. Booth, unveiling the Memorial at Plattsburgh[164]
Front View and Granite Approach of Memorial at Plattsburgh[164]
Governor John A. Dix speaking at Plattsburgh, July 6, 1912[166]
Group Picture of Commissioners Knapp, Hill, Witherbee, Frawley and Foley[216]
Group Picture of Commissioners Pell, Riley, Lafontaine, Booth, Shea and Weaver[216]
Charles Alexander Nelson, Indexer[262]

The

Tercentenary Celebration

of the

Discovery of Lake Champlain


Part One
MEMORIALS TO SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN