A view of the neighboring cataract at this period is given by Moll on one of his maps (1715), and is reproduced in Cassell’s United States, i. 541.
[1230] Of the occupation of Crown Point by the French, Smith (New York, 1814, p. 279) says: “Of all the French infractions of the treaty of Utrecht, none was more palpable than this. The country belonged to the Six Nations, and the very spot upon which the fort stands is included within the patent to Dellius, the Dutch minister of Albany, granted in 1696.” Again he says (p. 280): “The Massachusetts government foresaw the dangerous consequences of the French fort at Crown Point, and Gov. Belcher gave us the first intimation of it.” It was not till 1749 that there were reports that the French were beginning to plant settlers about Crown Point. (Penna. Archives, ii. 20.) Jefferys published a map showing the grants made by the French about Lake Champlain.
The English fort at Crown Point was built farther from the lake than the earlier French inconsiderable work. Chas. Carroll (Journal to Canada in 1776, ed. of 1876, p. 78) describes its ruins at that time,—-the result of an accidental fire.
[1231] W. C. Watson’s Hist. of the County of Essex, Albany, 1869, ch. iii.
[1232] N. Y. Col. Docs. ix. 1,041, etc.
[1233] Hist. Documents of the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec, in 1840.
[1234] A translation of Weiser’s journal on this mission is in the Penna. Hist. Col., i. 6.
[1235] Pierre Margry has two articles in the Moniteur Universel, and a chapter, “Les Varennes de Vérendrye,” in the Revue Canadienne, ix. 362. The Canadian historian, Benjamin Sulte, has a monograph, La Vérendrye, a paper, “Champlain et la Vérendrye,” in the Revue Canadienne, 2d ser., i. 342, and one on “Le nom de la Vérendrie” in Nouvelles Soirées Canadiennes, ii. p. 5. The Rev. Edw. D. Neill has a pamphlet, Le Sieur de la Vérendrye and his sons, discoverers of the Rocky Mountains by way of Lakes Superior and Winnipeg, Minneapolis, 1875. Cf. also Garneau, Hist. du Canada, 4th ed., ii. 96.
In the Kohl Collection (no. 128) of the Department of State there are copies of three maps in illustration. The first is a MS. map by La Vérendrye, preserved in the Dépôt de la Marine, “donnée par Monsieur de la Galissonière, 1750,” which Kohl places about 1730, showing the country, with portages, forts, and trading posts, between Lake Superior and Hudson’s Bay. The second (no. 129) is an Indian map made by Ochagach, likewise in the Marine. Kohl supposes it to have been carried to Europe by La Vérendrye, who used it in making the map first named. The third map (no. 130), also in the same archives, is inscribed: Carte des nouvelles découvertes dans l’ouest du Canada et des nations qui y habitent; Dressée, dit-on, sur les Mémoires de Monsieur de la Véranderie, mais fort imparfaite à ce gu’il m’a dit. Donnée au Dépôt de la Marine par Monsieur de la Galissonière en 1750.
[1236] Cf. Wisconsin Hist. Coll., iii. 197; Hist. Mag., i. 295; Joseph Tassé on “Charles de Langlade” in Revue Canadienne, v. 881, and in his Les Canadiens de l’ouest, Montreal, 1878 (p. 1, etc.); also M. M. Strong, in his Territory of Wisconsin (Madison, 1885), p. 41.