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

APPENDIX. 485second map, La Salle's colony appears in much diminishedproportions, his Indian settlements having in good measuredispersed.Two later maps of New France and Louisiana, both bearingFranquelin's name, are preserved in the De*pdt desCartes de la Marine, as well as a number of smaller mapsand sketches, also by him. They all have more or less ofthe features of the great map of 1684, which surpassesthem all in interest and completeness.The remarkable manuscript map of the Upper Mississippiby Le Sueur belongs to a periodnarrative.later than the close of thisThese various maps, joined to contemporary documents,*how that the Valley of the Mississippi received, at an earlydate, the several names of Manitoumie, Frontenacie, Colbertie,and La Louisiane. This last name, which it longretained, is due to La Salle. The first use of it which Ihave observed is in a conveyance of the Island of Belleislemade by him to his lieutenant, La Forest, in 1679.II.THE ELDORADO OF MATHIEU sAGEAN.Father Hennepin had among hiscontemporaries tworivals in the fabrication of new discoveries. The first wasthe noted La Hontan, whose book, like his own, had a widecirculation and proved a great success. La Hontan hadseen much, and portions of his story have a substantialvalue; but his account of his pretended voyage up the* Long River " is a sheer fabrication. His " Long River•