Carte de la descouverte du Sr. Jolliet ou l'on voit la communication du Fleuve St. Laurens avec les Lacs Frontenac, Erié, Lac des Hurons et Ilinois : le Lac Frontenac est separé par un sault de demeye lieue du Lac Erié, duquel on entre dans celuy des Hurons, et par une mesme navigation a celuy de

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Carte de la descouverte du Sr. Jolliet ou l'on voit la communication du Fleuve St. Laurens avec les Lacs Frontenac, Erié, Lac des Hurons et Ilinois : le Lac Frontenac est separé par un sault de demeye lieue du Lac Erié, duquel on entre dans celuy des Hurons, et par une mesme navigation a celuy des Ilinois au bout duquel on va joindre la Riviere Divine par un portage da mille pas qui tombe dans la Riviere Colbert et se descharge dans le Sein Mexique. [ca. 1850]

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Shows region bounded by Montreal, the Great Lakes, the headwaters of the Mississippi, and the course of the Ohio River; includes transcription of letter from Joliet to Louis de Buade, comte de Frontenac.

1 ms. map : hand col. ; on sheet 709 x 1, 052 mm.

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