[564] In the N. Y. Col. Docs. (ix. 116), and in Margry, i. 257. See also Shea’s Mississippi Valley, p. xxxiii; Tailhan’s Perrot, p. 382.
[565] Vol. i. p. 259.
[566] This has appeared in the Mémoires du Congrès des Américanistes, 1879; and in the Revue de Géographie, February, 1880. The original manuscript of the map is priced in Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, no 2,808, at 1,500 francs. Gravier gave a colored fac-simile of it in connection with his essay, and the same fac-simile is also given in the Magazine of American History, 1883. This fac-simile is of a reduced size; but some copies were also reproduced of the size of the original.
[567] The Jesuit Relations call it the “Grande Rivière” and the Messi-sipi; Marquette calls it “Conception;” and in 1674 it was called after Colbert. See an essay on the varying application of names to the Western lakes and rivers in Hurlbut’s Chicago Antiquities.
[568] The Relation of 1666, and other of the early writers, record the reports from the Indians of a great salt-water lying west, where now we know the Pacific flows. A collation of some of these references has been given in Andrew McF. Davis’s elaborate paper on “The Journey of Moncacht-Apé,” in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, ii. 335.
[569] Cf. Parkman, La Salle, p. 25.
[570] Parkman, La Salle, pp. 25, 450. A sketch of it is given herewith as “The Basin of the Great Lakes.”
[571] No. 214.
[572] Vol. i. pp. 259-270.
[573] This is printed in the Mission du Canada, i. 193, and translated in the Historical Magazine, v 237.