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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
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ever, the Ohio appears on the map of TheBasin of the Great Lakes, and Joliets Smaller Map. Further,the stated latitude of thirty-seven degrees in the second extractaccords well with the debouching of the Ohio River into theMississippi. Fortunately we have corroborating evidence of the justnessof the foregoing renderings of the befogged French by the writer.In Tract Number Twenty-five of the Western Reserve HistoricalSociety, Mr. C. C. Baldwin then its Secretary, wrote as follows: Sicur de la Salle. Ill Mr. Margry, in a letter addressed to Col. Whittlesey, President ofthe Historical Society, after expressing in the kindest manner his thanksfor the influence exerted here in behalf of his project (the publication ofhis researches), communicates the following extract of an unpublishedletter of La Salle, (no date) which translated reads: The river whichyou see marked on my map of the southern coast of this lake ;Erie)and towards the extremity called by the Iroquois Tiotontaenon, is without
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JOLTETS SMALLER MAP, 1672-74.Sketch of Central Part. doubt the passage into the Ohio, or Olierhira Sioon as it is called inIroquois, or in Ottawa The Beautiful River. The distance from theone to the other is considerable, and the communication more difficult;but within a days journey from its mouth at Lake Erie (washing as itflows a beautiful country) and at a musket shot from its banks, thereis a little lake (the marsh southwest of Fort Wayne? See Map No. 1)from which flows a stream three or four fathoms wide at the outlet fromthe lake one fathom in depth. It soon changes, however, into a river bythe junction of a number of other streams, which after a course of ahundred leagues, without rapids, (without great fall) receives another 112 Ohio Arch, and His. Society Publications. small river that comes from near the Miamis, and five or six others quiteas large, and flowing with greater rapidity along the declivity of axnountain (higher ground) and discharging into the Illinois (Ohio) t

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