[544] Made mainly about 1856, by P. L. Morin.
[545] There is a memoir of Colonel Thorndike in Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine, ii. 508.
[546] An excellent bibliographical summary of the sources of the history of these early Western explorations, by Mr. A. P. C. Griffin, appeared in the Magazine of American History, 1883, also separately. The account of the sources of La Salle’s discoveries given in Edouard Frère’s Manuel du Bibliographe Normand is scant. Mr. John Langton’s paper on “The Early Discoveries of the French in North America,” printed in The Canadian Journal, 1857, p. 393, enumerates some of the early maps. Dr. George E. Ellis’s “French Explorations in the West,” in the North American Review, cx. 260, is a review of Parkman; and J. H. Greene’s “Early French Travellers in the West,” in Ibid., xlviii. 63, is a review of Sparks’s Life of Marquette, which is one of the volumes of his American Biography.
[547] Margry, i. 81.
[548] La Salle, p. 450.
[549] Histoire de la Colonie Française, iii. 305.
[550] Notes, etc., no. 200.
[551] Catalogue, 1858, p. 1615.
[552] Histoire de la Colonie Française, vol. iii. p. 284.
[553] N. Y. Col. Docs., ix. 66. Margry (i. 73) gives various papers indicating the views of Talon on western exploration.