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

APPENDIX.LEARLY UNPUBLISHED MAPS OF THE MISSIS-SIPPI AND THE GREAT LAKES.Most of the maps described below are to be found in the Depotdes Cartes de la Marine et des Colonies, at Paris. Taken together,they exhibit the progress of western discovery, and illustrate therecords of the explorers.1. The map of Gralin6e, 1670, has a double title,—Carte du Canada et des Terres decouuertes vers le looDerie, and Carte du Lao Ontario et des habitations quiV enuironnent ensemble le pays que Mess 11 *- Dolier etGalinee, missionnaires du seminaires de St. Sulpice, ontparcouru. It professes to represent only the countryactually visited by the two missionaries. Beginning withMontreal, it gives the course of the Upper St. Lawrence andthe shores of Lake Ontario, the river Niagara, the northshore of Lake Erie, the Strait of Detroit, and the easternand northern shores of Lake Huron. Galine'e did not knowthe existence of the peninsula of Michigan, aud mergesLakes Huron and Michigan into one, under the name of"Michigan^, ou Mer Douce des Hurons." He was alsoentirely ignorant of the south shore of Lake Erie. Herepresents the outlet of Lake Superior as far as the Saut Ste,