La Salle and the discovery of the great West - North Central ...

PREFACE OF THE FIRST EDITION.xiiidisposal, and this privilege has beenkindly continuedby Mrs. Sparks.Abbe Faillon, the learned author of " La ColonieFranchise en Canada," has sent me copiesof various documents found by him, includingfamily papers of La Salle. Among others whoin various ways haVe aided my inquiriesare Dr.John Paul, of Ottawa, 111. ; Count Adolphe deCircourt, and M. Jules Marcou, of Paris ; M. A.Gerin Lajoie, Assistant Librarian of the CanadianParliament ; M. J. M. Le Moine, of Quebec; General Dix, Minister of the United Statesat the Court of France ; 0. H. Marshall, of Buffalo; J. G. Shea, of New York ;BuckinghamSmith, of St. Augustine; and Colonel ThomasAspinwall, ofBoston.The smaller map contained in the book is aportion of the manuscript map ofFranquelin, ofwhich an 'account will be found in the Appendix.The next volume of the series willbe devotedto the efforts of Monarchy and Feudalism underLouis XIV. toestablish a permanent power onthis continent, and to the stormy career of Louisde Buade, Count of Frontenac.Boston, 16 September, 1869.