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Identifier: coalmininginilli13andr (find matches)
Title: Coal mining in Illinois
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Andros, S. O Illinois State Geological Survey University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Dept. of Mining Engineering United States. Bureau of Mines
Subjects: Coal mines and mining
Publisher: Urbana, (Ill.) : University of Illinois
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ere, though it grows naturally without culture.The Savages tell us, that they have found near this Villagesome yellow Metal; but that cannot be Gold, according to theirown Relation, for the Oar of Gold cannot be too fine andbright as they told us. There are Coal-Pits on that River.Marquettes Journal was first published in France by Theve-not in 1681.4 Accompanying the narrative was a map (Seefig. 2) copied by Thevenot from one made by Marquette.Both original and copy show the same location of Charbonde terre as does Joliets map. Father Louis Hennepin, a Recollect priest, accompaniedLa Salles expedition to the Illinois country in 1680 as chap-lain and in his A New Discovery of a Large Country inAmerica, published in English in 1689, and dedicated to Wil-liam III of England, says with reference to the country along ^ecouvertes et fitablissements des Francais, I, p. 261. Published at Paris, 1681.2Thwaites, Jesuit Relations, Vol. 19, p. 86.3Margry, Vol. I, p. 465.4Recueil de Voyages. (10)
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Fig. 2. Copy of Marquettes map published by Thevenot, 1681 (From AHistory of the Mississippi Valley, by Spears and Clark) 12 COAL MINING INVESTIGATIONS the Illinois River from its source to the site of the present cityof Peoria:1 There are Mines of Coal, Slate, and Iron; andseveral pieces of fine red copper, which I have found nowand then upon the Surface of the Earth, makes me believethat there are Mines of it; and doubtless of other Metalsand Minerals, which may be discovered one time or another.They have Already found Allom in the country of the Iro-quoise. Hennepins map accompanying this narrative1 lo-cates a cole mine on the Illinois River above Fort Creve-coeur (Peoria) copied from Joliets map and Marquettes. On the twenty-seventh of September, 1720, Father Char-levoix arrived at the junction of the Kankakee and Illinoisrivers.2 He descended the Illinois to its junction with a riverwhich he mentions as being called the Pisicoui and whichflows from the country of Boniere because

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