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Memoir, by the Sieur de la Tonty. "Memoir sent in 1693, on the discovery of the Mississippi and the neighboring nations by M. de La Salle, from the year 1678 to the time of his death, and by the Sieur de Tonty to the year 1691."
CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, 1846-53.
NOTES
"This Memoir forms the basis of a spurious work, printed in Paris, 1679, entitleed 'Derniers découvertes dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, de m. de La Salle, par chevalier Tonti' ..."--Note, p. 52.
The French text of the Memoir is printed in Pierre Margry's Relations et mémoirs inédits, Paris, 1867, p. 5-36.
Petition of the Chevalier de Tonty to the Count de Pontchartrain, Minister of Marine: p. [79]-81. Tonty's account of the route from the Illinois, by the river Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico: p. [82]-83.
SUBJECTS
La Salle, Robert Cavelier,--sieur de,--1643-1687.
New France--Discovery and exploration.
Mississippi River--Discovery and exploration.
MEDIUM
p. [52]-83. 23 cm.
CALL NUMBER
F366 .F87 vol. 1
PART OF
French, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1799-1877, ed. Historical collections of Louisiana v. 1, p. [52]-83
DIGITAL ID
rbfr 0007_0072 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbfr.0007_0072
RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Issued as part of: Historical collections of Louisiana, embracing translations of many rare and valuable documents relating to the natural, civil and political history of that state)
(France in America: Selections from the LC Rare Books and Special Collections Division Description)
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