[534] [See the Note on the Jesuit Relations.—Ed.]

[535] In Margry’s Découvertes, etc.

[536] In his Notes pour servir à l’Histoire, etc., de la Nouvelle France.

[537] The bibliography of Hennepin is examined in a later note.

[538] There have been papers on the ancient mining on Lake Superior, by Daniel Wilson, in The Canadian Journal, New Series, i. 125, and by A. D. Hager, in the Atlantic Monthly, xv. 308.

[539] The North American Missions of the Catholics, particularly those of the West among the Hurons, etc., have been followed by A. J. Thébaud in The Month, xxxiii. 480; xxxv. 352; xxxvi. 168, 524; xxxvii. 228; xl. 379; xli. 60; xlii. 379; xliii. 337; and they of course make an important part of Dr. Shea’s History of the Catholic Missions among the Indian Tribes of the United States. See the Note elsewhere in the present volume on “The Jesuit Relations.”

[540] Cf. “Early Notices of the Beaver in Europe and America,” by D. Wilson, in The Canadian Journal, 1859, p. 359; “French Commerce in the Mississippi Valley, 1620-1720,” in the American Presbyterian Review, iv. 620; v. 110.

[541] Cf. “Early French Forts in the Mississippi Valley,” in the United States Service Magazine, i. 356.

[542] Field, no. 1,081, who calls it the best of the books on Western history; Thomson’s Ohio Bibliography, no. 842.

[543] Mr. Perkins also published a paper on “French Discovery in the Mississippi Valley” in The Hesperian (Columbus, Ohio), iii. 295; cf. papers by R. Greenhow, in De Bow’s Review, vii. 319.