[554] Vol. i. p. 112.
[555] He edited it for the Historical Society of Montreal in 1875. An English translation of part of it is given in Mr. O. H. Marshall’s First Visit of La Salle to the Senecas in 1669, which was privately printed in 1874.
[556] A heliotype of it is given in the note on “The Jesuit Relations,” following chapter iv., sub anno 1670, 1671. There is in the Kohl Collection (Department of State) what Kohl calls the “Jesuits’ map of Lac Supérieur;” but he gives it a somewhat later date, and says it is found in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. In the same Collection are maps of the Mississippi, dated 1670, and credited to “Thornton and Moll.”
[557] Parkman, La Salle, p. 452.
[558] Découvertes, etc., i. 376; cf. also p. 101.
[559] Cf. also Colonel Charles Whittlesey’s paper on “The Discovery of the Ohio River by La Salle, 1669-1670,” in no. 38, Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society’s Tracts. Dr. Shea thinks the legend “pour aller,” etc., was placed on the map by others.
[560] Découvertes, etc., ii. 285. The literature of this controversy is reviewed on a later page. Parkman thinks that La Salle crossed the Chicago portage and struck the upper waters of the Illinois, but did not descend that river, and suggests that the map called in a later sketch “The Basin of the Great Lakes” is indicative of this extent of La Salle’s exploration in the mere beginning of the Illinois River which it gives. Others reject the “Histoire” altogether, as Hurlbut does in his Chicago Antiquities, p. 250, not accepting Parkman’s view that La Salle was at Chicago in 1669 and 1670. Dr. Shea holds it was the St. Joseph’s River which La Salle entered.
[561] Shea (Mississippi Valley, p. lxxix) and Margry have done much to make known Joliet’s personal history. Margry has papers concerning him in the Journal général de l’instruction publique, and in the Revue Canadienne, December, 1871; January and March, 1872. Cf. Ferland, Notes sur les registres de Notre Dame de Québec, 2d ed., Quebec, 1863; Faillon, Histoire de la Colonie Française; Parkman, La Salle, pp. 49, 66.
[562] There has been a controversy over the point of Marquette’s being at Chicago. Cf. Dr. Duffield’s oration at Mackinaw, Aug. 15, 1878; H. H. Hurlbut on Father Marquette at Mackinaw and Chicago,—a paper read before the Chicago Historical Society, Oct. 15, 1878; A. D. Hager’s Was Father Marquette ever in Chicago? which is replied to by Hurlbut in his Chicago Antiquities, p. 384; also see Historical Magazine, v. 99.
[563] Notes, etc., p. 322.