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Account of the discovery of the river Mississippi, and the adjacent country, by Father Louis Hennepin.

Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent.

OTHER TITLES
Nouveau voyage d'un pais plus grand que l'Europe. English Selections.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, 1846.

NOTES
Caption title.

Extracts from the English translation of Hennepin's Nouveau voyage d'un pais plus grand que l'Europe ... Utrecht, 1698. The extracts are here reprinted from Archaeologia americana. Transactions and collections of the American antiquarian society, v. 1 (1820) p. [61]-104.

SUBJECTS
Mississippi River--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800.
La Salle, Robert Cavelier,--sieur de,--1643-1687.

MEDIUM
p. 195-222. 24 cm.

CALL NUMBER
F366 .F87 vol. 1

PART OF
French, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1799-1877, ed. Historical collections of Louisiana v. 1, p. 195-222

DIGITAL ID
rbfr 0007_0215 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbfr.0007_0215

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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