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TO MY FRIEND 
 
 FRANK HAYWARD SEVERANCE, 
 EDITOR OF THE ILLUSTRATED BUFFALO EXPRESS, 
 
 A CO-WORKER IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH, ESPECIALLY OF THIS 
 PORTION OF OUR COUNTRY; AND TO WHOM THE WRITER 
 HAS OFTEN BEEN INDEBTED FOR ATTENTIONS, IS THIS STORY 
 OF THE BIRTH-PLACE OF LA SALLE'S VESSEL, THE "GRIFFON," 
 INSCRIBED. 
 
 FEBRUARY 14th, 1891. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 In the Illustrated Express of this city, date of January 26, 1890, I had 
 the privilege, in an article, of showing a location supposed by me to be 
 the place where the vessel of La Salle, the " Griffon," was constructed in 
 the year 1679, and by which agency he intended to explore the Western 
 Lakes, and if possible to find an outlet by water to China and the Indies. 
 Since its publication I have been in receipt of several communications 
 regarding this and other supposed sites. There being such a diversity of 
 opinion, I have detennined to re- write the article, in part, adding all the 
 knowledge regarding this subject that I have been able to obtain from any 
 source and in full, in order now to definitely determine the site, as the 
 march of improvement is rapidly nearing this particular spot, and in a few 
 years the few historical places of this section will have been entirely 
 obliterated. This explanation,, with the title page, gives sufficient reason 
 for the appearance of this book. 
 
 A word as to the Bibliography at the end, for to be exact. La Salle, 
 separate from Hennepin, should not be included in the Bibliography of 
 the latter ; but in history the two persons are so closely allied that it seems 
 natural and proper that the works treating of each, historical or legendary, 
 should become as one. Upon this idea, they have been included in the 
 list. As a matter of reference it is to be hoped that it may prove a help 
 to the student of the history of those pioneers in the New France. 
 
 In making up this reference list, which is admitted to be still incomplete, 
 the following have been consulted : Mr. Joseph Sabin's valuable Index ; 
 
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 Dr. John Gilmarj' Shea's list ; Mr. ^Vil]iam F. Poole's Index of Periodi- 
 cal Literature ; Articles on Hennepin and La Salle, in \'olume four of 
 Mr. Justin AVinsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America," to- 
 gether with other references as noted, confirming the same as far as possi- 
 ble, with those in ray possession, such being marked in the li.st with a star. 
 The references to La Salle, in the " Narrative and Critical History," 
 have not been quoted in full, as by so doing it would have extended the 
 original limit of this work. 
 
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^^fWC^ «<^/^H-»-l.«^£*it, 
 
 I'ORTRAIT, FRdM KRONTH'I'; IN EIMTION OF 1702. 
 
TO LA SALLE'S MEMORY. 
 
 A MONUMENT WHERE THE GRIFFON WAS BUILT. 
 
 A CHAPTER OF HISTORY WITH A LOCAL PURPOSE— AN ANCIENT ENGRAVING 
 CONTRASTED WITH A MODERN VIEW. 
 
 The student of the early history of that portion of this 
 country which borders upon the St. Lawrence and western 
 chain of lakes, finds no names more indelibly connected with it 
 than those of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, his ally. 
 Chevalier Henry de Tonty and Father Louis Hennepin, the 
 missionary and spiritual adviser. At Fort Frontenac and vi- 
 cinity, also during his exploration on the Mississippi until his 
 assassination upon the Trinity River in March, 1687, he 
 evinced that indomitable will which has ever been allied to 
 success. 
 
 La Salle was born at Rouen, in 1643, and was of an old and 
 respected family. His father was a well-to-do merchant, and 
 occupied an honorable place in the gift of the state. " La 
 Salle " was the title of the estate held by the family and was 
 bestowed upon him, as was often done to members of families 
 of standing, as a distinguished mark of esteem. Many per- 
 sons have thus in after life been known by a different name 
 from that received in baptism, and which they have made 
 famous or infamous ; in the case of Robert Cavelier, it was 
 the former, for the name of La Salle will always in this por- 
 tion of the new world be held in admiration. 
 
lO 
 
 As a youth La Salle evinced an aptitude for the higher 
 branches of mathematics, and at an early age conceived a pre- 
 dilection for the priesthood and was for a period employed as 
 a teacher. Although he respected the order with which he 
 was connected, yet his youthful spirit would not brook the 
 single line of duty as marked, without any thought on his 
 part. Self-willed and ambitious, his nature was too intracta- 
 ble to bend implicitly to its stern decrees. His ambition was 
 also above the daily routine duties of a merchant, or servitor 
 at court. 
 
 The intense longing for adventure in those days of discov- 
 ery and conquest was further fanned into flame when the 
 fabulous tales of nature's abundance in the newly-discovered 
 countries were recited by the returned adventurers. In addi- 
 tion, an elder brother was a priest in the New France ; to him 
 he came, not however without a settled purpose for future 
 explorations, as he undoubtedly began to study the features 
 of the country, habits of the Indians, and their different dia- 
 lects. 
 
 The priests of Saint Sulpice, to which order his brother 
 belonged, wishing to strengthen their line of defense against 
 the predatory tribes of Indians, sold to actual settlers lands 
 upon easy terms, and La Salle was offered a large tract near 
 the rapids of La Chine, several miles distant from Montreal. 
 Having his object still in view, notwithstanding his apparent 
 indifference, he courted the visits of the Iroquois, and was 
 told by them of the vast tract of country lying to the west, 
 and which was traversed by an immense river, whose mouth 
 could only be reached by journeys of man)' months. These 
 stories were undcnibtedly embellished by the narrators when 
 they perceived the effect upon their listener, and they only 
 served to fire his determination to immediate action. Dream- 
 ing of this western passage which might lead to China, and 
 ambitious of proving it, he sold his possessions for enough to 
 buy a few canoes and the necessary supplies, and hiring a 
 dozen men to navigate them he started for the great region of 
 the unknown West, in 1670. After his exploration had pre- 
 sented to him the absurdity of the theory of the great western 
 
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 river, and had disclosed the fact of its having a southern 
 tendency, he then thought to be able to find its outlet, build 
 defenses at its mouth, and take possession of the territory in 
 the name of France. But with all this, Canada, to his mind 
 must still be the outlet of the great fur-bearing region, and to 
 obtain this end some one of influence there must be identified 
 with him in the project. This he found in the person ol 
 Count Frontenac, who had lately been appointed Governor of 
 Canada (1673) and who at this time had his attention also 
 turned towards the western region. Hearing of this. La Salle 
 entered heartily into the project ; entirely destitute of funds, 
 but filled with tlie delights of having an ally so powerful, he 
 at once joined with him. 
 
 The antipathy which the Iroquois possessed toward the 
 French in consequence of the latter occupying their hunting 
 and fishing territory, and the desire of the French to obtain 
 control of the fur trade of the upper country of the Lakes, 
 together with an attack upon them by the Indians, some time 
 previous, had instigated Courcelle, the former governor, to 
 petition the King for a fort upon Lake Ontario: but Fronte- 
 nac, being a man of energy, started in to anticipate any tardy 
 grant, and under the guise of making a tour of the country in 
 that vicinity, he in June, 1673, left Montreal with a retinue, 
 visited the place designed for the fort, held a grand reception 
 for the natives, and when the engineers had quietly marked 
 the ground, commenced to cut down trees, and before the 
 astonished Indians had comprehended these maneuvers, pali- 
 sades had been driven and quite a respectable structure of a 
 fort had been erected of logs. The Governor told them that 
 all these preparations were solely for their benefit, that this 
 was a store-house where at all times they could buy their pro- 
 visions, without the necessity of traveling hundreds of miles, 
 as heretofore. Following the erection of this fort the 
 opponents of Frontenac forwarded petitions to the King to 
 have it demolished, and it was only after La Salle, in 1674, had 
 gone to France in order to present the facts in the case to the 
 King, that it was allowed to stand. 
 
12 
 
 During his visit La Salle made such an impression that his 
 petitions were granted : first, to reimburse the governor the 
 cost of the fort, and also to maintain it at his charge with a 
 sufficient garrison, also to form around it a colony of French, 
 and support a Recollect friar in proportion to the population. 
 These offers were accepted. The King also conferred upon 
 La Salle the rank of noble, granted him the fort and lands 
 surrounding the same, subject always to the jurisdiction of the 
 governor of the province. 
 
 Thus we see him as a prosperous proprietor, and if he had 
 been content to continue as such, throwing aside all further 
 ambition as an explorer, he would thereafter have been known 
 in history as a trader. 
 
 As soon as prosperity comes to a person then commences 
 persecution, and La Salle was not an exception, for after 
 numerous trials and petty artifices to entrap him and lure him 
 to commit himself, so that occasion could be found against 
 him, he was again, in 1677, obliged to visit France to maintain 
 his rights. His mission on this occasion, as before, was 
 entirely successful, as King Louis of France, on the 12th day 
 of May, 1678, granted in addition a patent " to discover all the 
 western part of New France, through which a way may be 
 found into Mexico, under the same conditions as of Fort Fron- 
 tenac in 1675," While in France he obtained considerable 
 money to enable him to carry out these explorations. The 
 Prince de Conti recommended Henry de Tonty, an Italian, as 
 a valuable assistant in the work, together with La Motte de 
 Lussiere, and upon La Salle's arrival at Fort Frontenac, h,e 
 found Father Louis Hennepin at the fort as a Recollect friar, 
 who had come to join him and ardently entered into his plans. 
 
 Previous to this date, the French, to have better control of 
 the trade of the Lake Ontario, also to facilitate commerce, 
 had built a brig of ten tons, and in order to carry out the plan 
 of exploration upon the upper lakes, one of a larger capacity 
 was designed to be built above the Falls of Niagara. La 
 Salle, as has been mentioned, had the good fortune to have 
 associated with him in this work a few kindred spirits, such 
 as De Tonty, La Motte and Hennepin ; though if we accept 
 
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 the recent alleged discoveries by Margry, the luster of La 
 Motte's and Hennepin's fame has been dimmed by the trait- 
 orous acts of the former, and of the latter as a plagiarist. 
 There may be truth in these assertions, but the romance 
 which for 200 years has been thrown around Hennepin's 
 name, unchallenged, as historian of the " New D-iscovery of 
 a Vast Country," also in exploring parts of the same that La 
 Salle did not visit, has fully identified his name with it, and as 
 long as the history of the Falls of Niagara and the building 
 of the Griffon is told, will the name of Father Louis Hennepin 
 remain identified with them. 
 
 The object of this paper is not to recount the whole history 
 of the explorer La Salle, but to present for the consideration 
 of the people of this day the obligations they are under to 
 this man, who overcame the dangers incident to these discov- 
 eries ; and also for the purpose of placing on record the exact 
 spot where the keel of the first vessel was laid that navigated 
 the blue waters of our own Lake Erie; and to excite among 
 the rising generation a desire to perpetuate the memory of 
 these explorers by erecting, by a popular subscription, a 
 monument which shall mark the spot for all time. 
 
 One of the views accompanying this, show the site of the 
 building of the Griffon, reproduced from an engraving made 
 for the edition of Hennepin's narrative published in 1704 at 
 Amsterdam : 
 
 The full title as follows : 
 
14 
 
 voyage; 
 
 OU NOUVELI.Ii DFXOUVERTl'; 
 
 D'UN T RES-GRAND PAYS 
 
 DANS 
 
 L'AMERIQUE, 
 
 ENTRE LE NOUVEAU 
 
 M e;: X I Q u e:, 
 
 ET LA MER CLACIALE 
 PAR LE R. P. LOUIS HENNEPIN, 
 
 AVEC TOUTES I.ES PAKTICIH.ARITEZ DE Cli RaI'S, l>v: DE CEHU CONNU SOUS LE 
 
 NOM DE LA LOl'lSIANE; LKS ADVANTAl ;i':S (Hl'ON EN PEUT TIRER PAR 
 
 L'ETABL1RSKM1:NT DES colonies I^NRICIIIE DE CARTES 
 
 GEOGRAPHIOUES. 
 
 AUGMENTK DE (JLIELiJl'ES FIGl'KES EN TAILLE DOUCE 
 
 AVEC UN 
 
 V O Y A a E 
 
 QUI CONTIENT UN1= RELATION EXACTE DE L'ORIGINE, MOEURS. COl'TUMES, 
 RELIGION, GUERRES & \-OVAC;i;S DES 
 
 Cy\Ry\I BE:s, 
 
 SAUVAGES DES ISLES ANTILLES DE L'AMliRK.JUE, FAITE PAR LE SIEUR DE LA 
 BORDE, TIREE DU CABINET DIC MONS'R BLONDEL. 
 
 A. AMSTERDAM, 
 C'hez Adriaan Braakman, Marchand Libraire pres la 10am. 
 
 MDCCIV. 
 
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 This view was published only 25 years after the vessel had 
 been built, and as it is the only view known, there is a proba- 
 bility of its being, in some particulars, correct. 
 
 In order to test the matter I made a personal examination 
 of the place indicated by this view, and to my surprise found 
 just such high and low ground at a point opposite Cayuga 
 Island and on the east bank of the little Niagara, which forms 
 the channel separating Cayuga Island from the main land ; a 
 photograph was made of the place. It is herewith pre- 
 sented.* 
 
 This locality is upon the Angevine farm bordering upon 
 the Channel, south of the Cayuga Creek, and with at all times 
 a suitable depth of water, in contradistinction to the Cayuga 
 Creek proper, nearly a quarter of a mile to the north, and 
 which has steep mud banks and a very shallow bed of water, 
 and in many places partly covered with rushes and weeds. 
 
 It is a singular but pleasing fact for the historian of to-day 
 to know, that notwithstanding the changes incident to occu- 
 pancy by a population as progressive as ours, and upon so 
 magnificent a river as the Niagara, that a spot so famous as 
 this should have been spared until now, untouched by 
 improvement. Such, however, is the fact. 
 
 The owner of the estate, Mr. Jackson Angevine has gener- 
 ously stated to me that it will be a pleasure for him to donate 
 land sufficient for the erection of a testimonial commemor- 
 ating the event. 1 am convinced that this is the true locality, 
 and for which I hope to give good reasons for my drawing 
 such a conclusion. 
 
 Before proceeding further with the subject, I wish to place 
 before the reader the several opinions of historians and other 
 prominent writers regarding the locality of this historic ship- 
 yard. 
 
 The first record is, of course, in Hennepin's " Description 
 de la Louisiane," published at Paris, in 1683, pp. 41, 42 and 
 45, the text is as follows: 
 
 * The view was taken December 30, 1889, 210 years after the (.IrifFon was built, 
 and at that time there was not any snow upon the ground. 
 
"Apres qu'il eut donne ses ordres, & place les ouvriers au 
 Chantier qui estoit au dessus du grand Sault de Niagara, pour 
 la structure d'une seconde Barque . . . nostra Navire fut 
 en peu de temps en estat d'estre jett6 a'l'eau, & I'ayant benit 
 avec les ceremonies ordonnees par I'Eglise, on le mit a'l'eau, 
 quoy qu'il ne fut pas encore achev6, afin de le garentir du feu 
 dont il estoit menace. On le nomma le Griffon." Which 
 translated, reads : 
 
 "After he (La Salle) has given his orders and transferred the 
 workman to the ship-yard, which was above the great Fall of 
 Niagara, in order to build a second Barque." 
 
 " Our vessel m a short time was in a condition ready for 
 launching, we did away with the ordinary ceremonies that 
 the church prescribes on such occasions ; for the purpose of 
 protecting it from the fire with which it had been threatened. 
 Its name was the Griffon." Again : 
 
 In the Nouvelle Decouverte, pa. 94 : " Le vingt deuxieme 
 nous nous rendimes a'deux lieiies au dessus du grand Saut de 
 Niagara. On y dressa un Chantier pour la construction du 
 Vaisseau, dont nous avions besoin pour ndtre Voiage. Nous 
 ne pouvions batir dans un lieu plus commode, qu'aupres d'une 
 Riviere, qui descendoit dans le Detroit, qui est entre le Lac 
 Erie, & le grand Saut." Translated, is : 
 
 " On the 22nd (January, 1679,) we proceeded to a point two 
 leagues above the great Falls of Niagara ; there we put up 
 stocks to build the vessel we needed for our voyage. We 
 could not construct it in a more convenient place than near a 
 river, which descended into the straight, which is between 
 Lake Erie and the grand Fall." 
 
 The following is from the first English translation of 
 1698: 
 
 On the 22nd of the said month we went two leagues above 
 the great Fall of Niagara, where we made a dock for building 
 the ship we wanted for our voyage. This was the most con- 
 venient place we could pitch upon, being upon a river which 
 falls into the strait between the Lake Erie and the great Fall 
 of Niagara." 
 
An account of Mons. De La Salle's last expedition and dis- 
 coveries in North America by the Chevalier Tonty, London 
 Edition of 1698. 
 
 " M. La Salle had given orders for building a new ship or 
 great bark, and our men workt about it with all the diligence 
 that the season of the year could permit ; but the cold was so 
 excessive, that not only rivers, but even those vast lakes were 
 frozen all over, insomuch that they look'd like a plain pav'd 
 with fine polish'd marble. . . This new ship being near fin- 
 ished (Jan. 20), he sent me with five men to view the coast, 
 and the country to the north side of the lake, above 120 
 leagues from Niagara. We embarked in our canoes, and 
 having rowed two days, or rather swom, to use the stile of the 
 Savages, arrived to the straight of the lake Heri6." 
 
 M. Denomille, a French Governor of Canada, who in a 
 proclamation dated the 31st day of July 1687, speaks of La 
 Salle, having spent some time above the great Fall of Niagara, 
 where he had a Bark built, which navigated Lakes Erie, 
 Huron and Illinois, and of which the stocks, les chentiers, are 
 still to be seen." Doc. His. N. Y. Vol. i. pa. 243. 
 
 History of New York by William Smith 1732, pa. 80. Ed. of 
 1 8 14. Speaking of La Salle, says : 
 
 "This enterprising person the same year, 1678, launched a 
 bark of ten tons into the lake Ontario, and another of 60 tons, 
 the year after, into Lake Erie ; about which time he enclosed 
 with palisadoes, a little spot at Niagara." 
 
 Henry R. Schoolcraft, an authority upon Indian traditions, 
 in his work entitled "Tour of the Lakes, etc.," to the sources 
 of the Mississippi, in 1820, Ed. of 1821, Albany, N. Y. pa. 33, in 
 speaking of Buffalo, says : 
 
 "The first vessel which navigated Lake Erie, was built in 
 this vicinity, by La Salle, in 1679 ; being a vessel of sixty tons 
 burden. A part of the tribe of the Seneca Indians are located 
 in this vicinity," he showing that he meant by vicinity, Buf- 
 falo. 
 
 In his history of " The Iroquois," Ed. of 1847, pa. 289, he 
 further says : 
 
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 " The enterprise of La Salle, in constructing a vessel above 
 the Falls of Niagara, in 1679, to facilitate his voyage to the 
 Illinois and the Mississippi, is well known, but while the fact 
 of his having thus been the pioneer of naval architecture on 
 the upper lakes, is familiar to historical readers, the particular 
 place of its construction, has been a matter of various opin- 
 ions. . . These versions result in a measure from the vague 
 and jarring accounts of the narrators, whose works had been 
 constructed in some instances from abridged or mutilated 
 translations, and not from doubt or ambiguity in the mission- 
 ary letters," pa. 291. The vessel according to him was built 
 " two leagues above the Falls," "on the South, banks." From 
 every examination, there can be no doubt, that the spot 
 selected was Cayuga Creek,* that is about three miles above 
 Fort Schlosser." 
 
 The Hon. Lewis Cass, ex-Governor of Michigan, in a paper 
 read at the first meeting of the Historical Society of that 
 State, Sept. 13th, 1829, states that: 
 
 " The full completion of this discovery was reserved for La 
 Sale. He was a man of genius and cultivated talents. Firm 
 in his resolutions, persevering in his efforts, full of resource, 
 he seemed destined to enlarge the geographical knowledge 
 and to extend the dominion of his countrymen. He built the 
 first vessel that ever navigated these lakes. She was launched 
 at Erie, and called the Griffin." 
 
 Erie, Pa., or Presqu'ile, was not known at the time of La 
 Salle's visitation, and not until 1763 was a post of defense 
 erected at this place by the French. At this later date they 
 may have built some Batteaux for their use, but certainly not 
 earlier. How such an intelligent man as Gen. Cass, who was 
 intimately acquainted with the country and its history, could 
 have made such a statement, exceeds belief. 
 
 The historian, Hon. George Bancroft, in his " History of the 
 United States," first Ed. Vol. 3, pa. 162, says: "that it (the 
 Griffon) was built at the mouth of the Tonewande Creek." 
 Later in the Ed. of 1852, Vol. 2, pa. 163, says : 
 
 ^ This is 'Ca^ first mention of Cayuga Creek as being the site, that I have anywhere 
 found. 
 
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 " Near the mouth of the Cayuga Creek the work of ship- 
 building began." Subsequent editions of his have the same cor- 
 rection. 
 
 Jared Sparks, in his " Life of Robert Cavelier de La Salle," 
 series of American Biography, Boston 1844, pa. 21, says: 
 
 " His present aim was to push forward with all speed to the 
 west, and he lost no time in making preparations for his voy- 
 age. 
 
 The place for a dock-yard was selected about two leagues 
 above the Falls, at the outlet of a creek on the Western* side 
 of Niagara River. Here the keel of a vessel was laid six 
 days after his arrival, and drove the first bolt with his own 
 hand." 
 
 Richard Hildreth, in his " History of the United States," 
 Vol. 2, pa. 96, says : 
 
 . . " Before winter, he (La Salle) ascended Lake Ontario, 
 entered the Niagara, and, passing round the Falls, selected a 
 spot at the foot of Lake Erie, not far from the present site of 
 Buffalo, where he commenced building the Griffin, a bark of 
 sixty tons. . . . Sixty sailors, boatmen, hunters and sol- 
 diers made up the company." 
 
 " American Pioneers and Patriots." 
 
 The Adventures of the Chevalier de La Salle, &c., by John 
 S. C. Abbott, 1875, pp. 97 and 98, it reads : 
 
 " On the 20th of January, 1679, La Salle, with his long train 
 of heavilj'-laden men in single file, reached his large log-cabin 
 and ship-yard in the midst of a dense forest on the shore of 
 Lake Erie. They brought upon their backs provisions, mer- 
 chandise, ammunition, and materials for rigging the vessel. 
 The dock-yard — it could hardly be called a fort — was about six 
 miles above Niagara Falls, on the Westernf side of the river 
 at the outlet of a little stream called Chippewa Creek." 
 
 The late Air. Orsamus H. Marshall, a life-long resident of this 
 city, and a painstaking historian, in a paper read before the 
 Historical Society of this city, February 3, 1863, gives an 
 account of the " Griffon," in which article he says ; 
 
 '' That means the Canadian side. 
 \ Thus following Sparks' statenient, 
 
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 " Historians have widely differed, not only as to the one 
 (site) finally selected, but also as to the precise point where 
 the keel of the historic bark was laid." Then speaking of the 
 " Highrock," and " Three Mountains," he continues : " Two 
 leagues above the Falls, we find the Cayuga Creek, a stream 
 which answers perfectly Hennepin's description. Opposite 
 its mouth, an island of the same name lies parallel with the 
 shore, about a mile long, and two or three hundred yards 
 wide. It is separated from the main land by a narrow branch 
 of the river, called by the early inhabitants ' Little Niagara,' 
 wide and deep enough to float a vessel of the tonnage of the 
 ' Griffon.' Into this channel and opposite the middle of the 
 island, the Cayuga Creek empties. On the main shore just 
 above the mouth of the creek, and under shelter of the island, 
 is a favorable site for a ship-yard. So eligible is the position, 
 that it was selected by the United States Government, in the 
 early part of the present century, as a suitable point for build- 
 ing one or more vessels for the transportation of troops and 
 supplies to the Western ports. For that reason it was known 
 in early times as the ' Old Ship-yard ; ' and local traditions 
 have been preserved in the memory of the early pioneers of 
 its anterior occupancy, for the same purpose, by the French," 
 and in a paper read before the same Society, February 27th, 
 1865, entitled the "Niagara Frontier," pa. 415, of the printed 
 volume, he adds: "The same site was selected by the United 
 States Government about the year 1804, for the construction 
 of a small sloop of fifty tons burden, called the ' Niagara,' 
 which was used for conveying supplies to the Western ports." 
 
 Mr. Francis Parkman, Jr., a historian of great research, 
 espjecially as regarding the early French history of the West, 
 in his " Life of Pontiac," ist Ed. Boston 185 1, pa. 52, in speak- 
 ing of this enterprise of La Salle's, says : 
 
 " Two leagues above the cataract on the Western* bank 
 of the river, he built the first vessel which ever explored the 
 waters of the upper lakes. Her name was the Griffin, and her 
 burden was sixty tons." 
 
 * Still following Sparks' statement. 
 
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 In the 6th Ed., Vol. i, pa. 58, he accepts Cayuga Creek as 
 the supposed site and in his very interesting work on " La 
 Salle and the Discovery of the Great West," Ed. of 1879 
 (Eleventh Ed.) pa. 132, says : 
 
 " That it is a question of debate which side of the Niagara 
 the first vessel on the Upper Lakes was built. A close study 
 of Hennepin and a careful [personal ?] examination of the lo- 
 cality, have convinced me that the spot was that indicated 
 above [namely, Cayuga Creek]. Hennepin says she was built 
 at the mouth of a stream (riviere) entering the Niagara two 
 leagues above the Falls. Excepting one or two small brooks 
 there is no stream on the west side but Chippewa Creek, 
 which Hennepin had visited and correctly placed at about a 
 league from the Cataract. His distances on the Niagara are 
 usually correct. On the east side there is a stream which 
 perfectly answers the conditions. This is Cayuga Creek, two 
 leagues above the Falls. Immediately in front of it is an 
 island about a mile long, separated from the shore by a nar- 
 row and deep arm of the Niagara, into which the Cayuga 
 Creek discharges itself. The place is so obviously suited to 
 building and launching a vessel that in the early part of this 
 century the government of the United States chose it for the 
 construction of a schooner to carry supplies to the garrisons 
 of the upper lakes. In examining this and other localities on 
 the Niagara, I have been greatly aided by my friend O. H. 
 Marshall, of Buffalo, who is unrivalled in his knowledge of 
 the history and traditions of the Niagara Frontier." 
 
 John Gilmary Shea, LL. D., a painstaking historian of our 
 country, especially of that relating to La Salle and other 
 French discoverers, remarks : 
 
 " The site of the stocks where the ' Griffon ' was built was 
 fixed at various points by Bancroft, Sparks, Cass, Schoolcraft 
 and others. O. H. Marshall, examining the matter by the 
 light of documents and topography, decided it to have been 
 at the mouth of Cayuga Creek, on the American side." 
 
 In a work entitled, " A Popular History of the United 
 States," &c., by William Cullen Bryant and Sydney Howard 
 
2,S 
 
 Gay, 4 vols., published by Charles Scribner's Sons, N. Y., 
 1878, Vol. 2, at page 510, it reads: 
 
 . . . "Arriving at the head of Lake Ontario he (La 
 Salle) made the portage by Niagara Falls to Lake Erie, and 
 at Fort Frontenac \_sic\ he began to build a ship of forty-five 
 tons, which he called the Griffon." 
 
 Capt. James Van Cleve, who died two or three years since, 
 was born in New Jersey in 1808. He came to Lewiston, N. 
 Y., in 1824, and for a number of years was commander of a 
 vessel on Lake Ontario, and later was general agent of the 
 Ontario and St. Lawrence line of steamers. A few years be- 
 fore he died he compiled a valuable and unique volume of 
 drawings with manuscript notes of historical interest and re- 
 lating chiefly to Lakes Erie and Ontario and the immediate 
 country, presenting the same to the Historical Society of this 
 city, where it now is and can be profitably consulted by 
 lovers of local history. In this book he makes a drawing of 
 the Little Niagara and surroundings, locating the site of the 
 " Griffon's" dock on the Angevine farm. In giving his 
 reasons for so doing, among other arguments he advances in 
 supporting his opinions, says : 
 
 " Mrs. Eli Reynolds now (1876) residing at Niagara Falls, 
 aged 83 years, remarkably smart and intelligent, says her father 
 settled with his family at Schlosser in 1808, and at Cayuga 
 Creek in 1810; was well acquainted with an old ship-carpenter 
 named Smith who had some time before located his place for 
 work upon the ground upon which vessels had been built 
 many years before ; that old blocks, chips, and rusted remains 
 of small articles of iron were found under the surface of the 
 ground, and that tradition among the Indians was that the 
 ' Big Canoe' (" Griffon ") was built there by the French. 
 
 "The location of the old ship-yard is about half a mile below 
 the head of Cayuga Island, on the bank of the small channel 
 separating the island from the main land, and about the same 
 distance above the mouth of Ca3'uga Creek. 
 
 " The old ship-yard was a more favorable spot for building 
 and launching the vessel than that directly at the mouth of 
 the Creek, where the land was low and marshy. 
 
"The ship-yard was upon land now known as the Angevine 
 farm ; descendants of that family are now (1876) living upon 
 that land. 
 
 " La Salle and his company arrived at the foot of the 
 ' Three Mountains' at Lewiston, December 7, 1678, and at the 
 time when ice begins to make and obstruct navigation ; there- 
 fore it is quite improbable he would have established depots 
 for his supplies and ship-stores at the cabins or stockade 
 where Fort Niagara now stands, and at the foot of the ' Three 
 Mountains ' at Lewiston on the east side of the river for build- 
 ing the bark ' Griffon,' and then select the place for building 
 her at or near Chippewa Creek, above the Falls on the west 
 side during the winter when the river is obstructed by run- 
 ning ice. La Salle, being a scientific and practical man, he 
 was without any doubt goTerned by this natural law of the 
 river, and built the 'Griffon' on the east or same side his 
 depot of supplies were upon. Therefore selected the vicinit}' 
 of Cayuga Creek, six miles above the Falls as the safest place 
 for building his vessel and convenient to his supplies at 
 Lewiston. 
 
 " It is altogether probable, however, that when the French 
 built Batteaux and canoes during many years after in that 
 locality they would continue to do so on the same ground se- 
 lected by La Salle for building the 'Griffon,' it being most con- 
 venient to the head of navigation below the ' Three Mountains,' 
 from which point all supplies had to be carried over the car- 
 rying place to Cayuga Creek on the backs of his men. 
 
 "Joshua Fairbanks, one of the earliest settlers of Lewiston, 
 N. v., came to Oueenstown 1793 from Massachusetts, and 
 was well acquainted with several old French officers who did 
 not return to France after the conquest of Canada by the 
 English in 1759. Some of these were old men at the time 
 that Mr. Fairbanks came, and the}' told him that the bark 
 ' Griffon ' was built at Cayuga Creek, six miles above the 
 Falls, and that small spike and other articles-of iron were fre- 
 quently found there when they first came to Forts Niagara and 
 Schlosser with the French troops. Mr. Fairbanks frequently 
 told me (Mr. Van Cleve, who was a son-in-law) that when 
 
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 he first came to Queenstown the old tramway piers up the 
 ' Three Mountains ' were mostly in perfect order, having been 
 used more or less by the French and English loo years, 1679- 
 1780. The testimony of these old officers should be quite 
 conclusive as to where the ' Griffon ' was built, as they were 
 young lieutenants, probably 25 years old, when they came to 
 Canada with French troops. As one of them died at Queens- 
 town in 1794, at the age of 90, they probably came to Fort 
 Niagara about 1730. That would leave but fifty years be- 
 tween the building of the ' Griffon ' and the date of their com- 
 ing. Fifty years in the absence of any improvements would 
 not obliterate all trace of the ship-yard." 
 
 The following communications were either copied from the 
 daily press or received by me, as they will show : 
 
 Buffalo Courier, Wednesday , January 2g, i8go. 
 LA SALLE'S VESSEL. 
 
 To the Editor of the Courier : Regarding the project of 
 erecting a monument at this place commemorating the building 
 of the Griffin, by the Cavelier de La Salle in 1679, as de- 
 scribed and illustrated in the last Sunday's Express, the idea 
 is a good one, and the site chosen is good enough to show the 
 monument off to advantage, and probably near enough to the 
 "true locality" for all practical purposes. 
 
 But Mr. Remington seems to have been misled in arriving 
 at his conclusions as to the " true locality " of the building 
 and launch of the Griffin. 
 
 On the north or lower bank of the Cayuga Creek, not far 
 from its mouth, is, or was (for it has been built over) an easy 
 sandy slope of about one foot rise in ten, back from the wa- 
 ter's edge, with a depth of about twelve feet of water oppo- 
 site, and from there and for some distance above to the outlet 
 of the creek. The fact of such a locality seems to have es- 
 caped the knowledge of Mr. Remington, as his claims to hav- 
 ing found the " true locality " are partly founded on the belief 
 that there was no eligible site for the purpose on Cayuga 
 Creek, or as he puts it, " which (creek) has steep mud banks 
 and a very shallow bed of water." 
 
Having thus disposed of Cayuga Creek, his further conclu- 
 sions seem to rest on the fact of a man now sixty years old 
 having seen the remains of some old launch-ways on his place 
 half a mile up the river from the mouth of Cayuga Creek 
 when a boy, and who had been told that the chips were visi- 
 ble a few years previous. That was only about fifty years 
 ago, or about i6o years after the Griffin was built that the 
 skids were still to be seen, and about 140 years old for the 
 chips. They must have been relics of more lasting timber 
 than has been found here in recent years; perhaps of some of 
 the palm trees pictured in the illustration of Father Henne- 
 pin's drawing, in which he traces such a striking resemblance 
 to his chosen "true locality." 
 
 Mr. Angevine's wood is above par, but it is altogether 
 probable that the launch-ways and chips he describes are of 
 much later origin than 1679, and most likely the remains of 
 the building of a schooner in this locality by the United 
 States Government in the early part of the present century, 
 to carry supplies to the garrisons on the upper lakes. Even 
 those would have been pretty old skids, as such things last, 
 lying out on the ground in this climate, when Mr. Angevine 
 came on deck, and all traces of chips must have then disap- 
 peared. 
 
 The best authorities agree that the Griffin was built "at 
 the mouth of Cayuga Creek." Admitting that the Angevine 
 place is near enough to be a possible site, the probabilities are 
 that La Salle, on coming to Cayuga Creek, at or near its 
 mouth, found either the spot he was looking for, or the first 
 obstacle in his way since toiling up the rugged heights above 
 Lewiston, and very likely both. 
 
 He evidently stopped when he came to the creek, or he 
 would not have said so, perhaps never mentioned it. 
 
 It may have been frozen over so as to be no impediment, 
 except in getting over its "steep mud banks," being late in 
 January, or it may not have been. He never forded its 
 " very shallow bed of water," anyway. 
 
MAP DRAWN BY H. S. TOMPKINS, 
 
 To show place where he thinks the '■ Giiffon " was built. 
 
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 He did not have to cross either on the ice, or, like the 
 children of Israel, through the Red Sea, to find a location 
 fully as good and even better for their purposes than any 
 further on. 
 
 Here was a navigable stream flowing into Niagara River. 
 They approached it on the north side. Such a spot as they 
 were looking for lay at their feet. Why carry their burdens 
 further, even though there were no " steep mud banks " in 
 the way, and the ice was good ? They were heavily laden, 
 for, besides their other equipments, were things to be used in 
 the construction of the Griffin as well as its armament, and 
 we are told that five cannon looked out of the sides of the 
 Griffin after she was launched. 
 
 Had they come down the river instead of up, they might 
 possibly have stopped at .Vngevine's place in preference to 
 .crossing the creek. They certainly would, if Jackson had 
 been there to entertain them. J. Angevine never turned any- 
 one away unless they were trying to impose on him, but he 
 was not " at home " those days, and they were on the other 
 side of the creek. Their hosts were the two friendly iNIohe- 
 gans. They entertained as well on one side of the creek as 
 the other. 
 
 Mr. Remington had every good reason to cross and the fa- 
 cilities for getting over. La Salle had neither. Tonti's 
 energy would not have urged him further, and Hennepin had 
 carried his altar strapped upon his back full far enough. 
 There was no necessity for further procedure. 
 
 " They came at last to the mouth of a stream which entered 
 the Niagara River two leagues above the cataract "* 
 
 There Father Hennepin set up his altar — or rather down — 
 and there was laid the first keel that ever plowed Lake Erie, 
 and all the Griffin ever saw of Mr. Remington's "true lo- 
 cality " was when she looked out with her five cannon as she 
 was towed by it the following spring. 
 
 The oldest traditions known here, coming from people fa- 
 miliar with this locality from the beginning of this century, 
 and with its history previous to that, locate the place where 
 
 *So says Parkman in Ed. of Iva Salle, 1870. 
 
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 the Griffin was built on the north or lower side of the 
 Cayuga Creek, just above the railroad crossing and not far 
 from its mouth. 
 
 H. S. Tompkins. 
 La Salle, January 27. 
 
 I then addressed Mr. Tompkins as follows: 
 
 " Some time since I read an article from your pen, in the 
 Courier of this city, criticising my article in the Express re- 
 garding the site of the Griffon's ship-yard. 
 
 " Will you have the kindness to sketch for me the place 
 where you think the vessel was built, as I wish to have all in- 
 formation possible, at this late date, regarding the true site." 
 
 April the 21st, Mr. Tompkins sent me the following map of 
 the place that he supposed to be the correct one.* It is lo- 
 cated just south of the iron bridge that crosses Cayuga Creek, 
 on the road to Lewiston. The place has been filled in, and 
 upon it buildings erected, so that the former contour of the 
 ground is not seen now. This spot is also about a quarter of 
 a mile north from the Little Niagara, and on the west bank of 
 Cayuga Creek. 
 
 From The Express of March gth, i8go : 
 
 WHERE THE GRIFFIN WAS BUILT. 
 
 Editor Buffalo Express : I have read with interest the recent 
 articles in the Buffalo press relative to the exact point where 
 La Salle built the Griffin. As a native of Niagara County, 
 having been born not far from Cayuga Creek in 1 8 1 6, and reared 
 on a farm, roamed as a farmer's boy far and wide over that 
 country, up to 1837, I took some note of the make of the 
 land ; was well acquainted with the neighborhood of Cayuga 
 Creek, where it empties into a branch of Niagara River, 
 which flows around Cayuga Island, and I distinctly remember 
 the Old River Road where it crossed the Old Military Road 
 at Cayuga-Creek bridge. Travelers on their way from Lake 
 Ontario up Niagara River also had to cross Gill Creek nearer 
 the Falls. In Father Hennepin's account of the arrival of 
 
 "^" ^lap on page 32. 
 
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 La Salle from Quebec, in the year 1678, coming up the river 
 a part of his company came to the foot of the rapids at Lewis- 
 ton. Here he established a trading post upon the present site 
 of Fort Niagara. Some thirty miles farther up the river, and 
 six or seven miles above the Falls, at the mouth of Cayuga 
 Creek, " the work of ship-building was immediately com- 
 menced." " The keel of a small vessel of sixty tons burthen 
 was laid at the mouth of Cayuga Creek.'' Here, on the west 
 bank, not far from the entrance of the Cayuga into the " Lit- 
 tle River" which surrounds Cayuga Island, is ground admir- 
 ably adapted to the launching of a " small vessel," with suffi- 
 cient depth of water in the creek to float her thence to the 
 river, and there appears to have been no object for crossing 
 the creek to seek a better place farther up. 
 
 When it is remembered that before the Revolutionary War 
 of 1775 no wagon-road had been opened from Tonawanda 
 Creek to Niagara Falls along the river, it seems quite plausi- 
 ble that La Salle, with his exploring company, looking for a 
 good place to launch a small vessel of sixty tons burden, 
 should choose his ship-yard on the first good safe ground to 
 be met with on the route, which certainly was met before 
 crossing Cayuga Creek. 
 
 If the public eye is to be attracted to this place by a monu- 
 mental sign, why not place that sign as near the locality where 
 the Griffin was built as existing facts will indicate ? 
 
 What though an old ship-yard existed farther up where 
 " skids " etc., were to be seen later (probably a heavier craft 
 built there by the present Government), no historic fact ought 
 to be perverted thereby. The oldest inhabitants well remem- 
 ber that sixty years ago, on the north (or west) bank of 
 Cayuga Creek, near its mouth, only undergrowth timber, 
 principally ash, chestnut, etc., existed; indicating that along 
 that bank of the creek the large timber had been removed 
 long ago, while the dry, sloping bank answers all objections 
 that might be raised to that locality as the place where La 
 Salle actually built and launched the Griffin. 
 
 T. WiTMER. 
 
 WilHamsville, March 3d. 
 
T. WITMER'S MAP 
 
 Of location of the "Gr^tlon's" ship-yard. At mouth of Creek marked A. 
 
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 In noting this article I wrote Mr. Witraer as follows : 
 
 Dear Sir — Your communication to the Express, published 
 in its issue of March 9th regarding the question of site where 
 the " Griffon " was built has been read by me. Will you have 
 the kindness to make a drawing of the spot 3-ou mention and 
 the surroundings, as nearly as you ma)- remember when you 
 knew it, together with such memoranda as you choose to add 
 to that already published in your article, sending the same to 
 me, and greatly oblige. 
 
 March 17, 1890. 
 
 Under date of March 22, at Williamsville, N. Y., he replied 
 as follows : 
 
 " Vours of late date came to hand during my absence from 
 home. Since my return I have recurred to the matter from 
 personal recollection only, but will ask a little time till I visit 
 my older brother, who resides in the locality, as well as others 
 interested in the matter. I send you a rough sketch of sur- 
 veys made in that locality for other purposes. 
 
 " When we read Hennepin, with the natural facts to guide 
 us, our conclusion is that the vessel was built on the westerly 
 bank of Cayuga Creek, that being the first and most conven- 
 ient bank arrived at on his trip in search of a good place for 
 the purpose of ' building and launching a small vessel.' " 
 
 Later I received this : 
 
 " In my last I forgot to indicate the Magnetic Meridian. 
 Cayuga Creek enters the Little River fro7n the North, by a 
 southeasterly course, Niagara River having here a due west- 
 erly course." 
 
 This from a friend residing in Canada : 
 
 " You have been kind enough to send me the Sunday Ex- 
 press of January 26, containing an article on the monument 
 which it is proposed to erect to the memory of La Salle at the 
 village of La Salle. 
 
 " I have examined the cut representing a facsimile of the 
 original engraving in Hennepin's work showing the building 
 of the 'Griffon' with much interest, and I cannot help regard- 
 ing it as the strongest argument which I have yet seen in 
 favor of the Chippewa Creek being the real site where the 
 
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 MAP SHOWING THE CHIPPKWA CREEK ON THE CANADIAN SIDE OF THE 
 NIAGARA, AND THE CAYUGA CREEK, THE LITTLE NIAGARA, ALSO THE LOCA- 
 TION OF THE ANGEVINE FARM. 
 
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 vessel was constructed. The sunlight and shadows cast upon 
 and by the figures, trees, boat and hills, together with the 
 height of the latter would suit the south side of the Niagara 
 River only. 
 
 " What is your own opinion of the cut? " 
 
 Regarding this expression from my Canadian friend 1 
 reply that the point is not well taken as regards the light and 
 shadows. If reference is made to the map of the Niagara in 
 this volume,* which embraces the two creeks in question, 
 namely the Cayuga and the Chippewa, it will be perceived 
 that both have the same direction: The Chippewa flowing 
 northeasterly into the Niagara ; the Cayuga flowing south 
 with an inclination to the west, into the Little Niagara, the 
 so-called channel. The shadows at either place on the south 
 or east bank, and also at the Angevine farm, would be pre- 
 cisely the same angle. The point raised does not prove any- 
 thing, and further the fact is sufficiently established that the 
 Griffon was built on this, the east side of the Niagara. 
 
 Having exhausted the records of history and opinions of 
 others regarding the site of the dock, we now proceed to give 
 what we think sufficient reason to admit that the present An- 
 gevine farm, or " Old Ship-yard," on the Little Niagara is the 
 place that was selected by La Salle in 1678. 
 
 The account by Hennepin is meagre. La Salle transfers 
 his workmen to the ship-yard which was above the Great Fall 
 of Niagara, and "which could not be in a more convenient 
 place than near a river that descended into the straight, 
 (meaning the Niagara, which is the only straight connecting 
 Lakes Erie and Ontario,) which is between Lake Erie and the 
 Great Fall." 
 
 The first English translation of Hennepin in 1698, (twenty 
 years after the building) reads: " being upon a River which 
 falls into," etc. 
 
 In the translation of 1698, of Chevelier Henry De Tonty's 
 account, he says : " but the cold was so excessive, that not 
 only rivers, but even those vast lakes were frozen all over," 
 
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 better for vessel building than the land, and we may reason- 
 ably suppose that the Little Niagara, or channel, would be 
 preferable, as being more apt to feel the effects of a loosening 
 of the ice, if at all obstructed. 
 
 We pass over the records of Messrs. Smith, Schoolcraft, 
 Cass, Bancroft, Sparks, Hildreth, Abbott, Bryant, and others 
 as not of authority, some of whom correct their first state- 
 ments in subsequent editions of their works, as Mr. Francis 
 Parkman in his earlier edition committed the same error, but 
 later takes his cue from Mr. Marshall. Dr. Shea also takes 
 Mr. Marshall's statement. 
 
 Mr. William Pool, editor of the " Courier," at the village of 
 Niagara Falls, N. Y., a life-long resident of that place and of 
 Lewiston, informs me "that the Angevine farm is the only 
 spot that has maintained with any degree of historic authority, 
 as being the place where La Salle built his vessel, the ' Grif- 
 fon,' in 1679." 
 
 Messrs. Tompkins and Witmer are apparently slightly 
 biased on this question. Mr. Tompkins speaks of the ship- 
 yard as not being near the mouth of the Creek, but insists 
 that it was upon the Creek, full a quarter of a mile from its 
 mouth. The question arises why did La Salle go up the 
 Creek that tar, in a hostile country, cold and ice bound, as 
 Tonty says it was, when by its mouth even, or near it, he 
 would be more protected in every respect ? If he could go 
 up the creek thus far, why not the same distance up the 
 straight on the Little Niagara? 
 
 Mr. Witmer thinks it was directly at the mouth of the 
 creek, which could not possibly be, as at that place and along 
 the banks, down the channel, is low marshy ground, appar- 
 ently in the same condition to-day as it was two hundred 
 years ago,* and could not have been made suitable without 
 great labor. 
 
 Therefore, we may with all fairness narrow the question of 
 site to the testimony of Hennepin, Mr. Marshall, Captain Van 
 
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 Cleve, Mrs. Reynolds, Mr. Fairbanks and Mr. Pool, as being 
 the most authentic and natural. 
 
 Hennepin, Marshall and others use the word near, they do 
 not say at, but near. 
 
 Webster defines the word near, as "not far distant," "not 
 remote," " nigh," etc, meaning that it was in the neighbor- 
 hood, which I think is the construction placed upon it by 
 those parties. For if we examine the locality at and above 
 the creek upon the channel, one can but be convinced that the 
 Angevine place or " Old Ship-yard," is the first suitable spot 
 arrived at for the purpose of ship or vessel building. Mr. 
 Marshall distinctly says that it is the same place which our 
 government used to build a vessel in 1804, and lastly, the view 
 of the building of the Griffon, published in 1704,* and that 
 one taken in i889,t are representations of precisely the same 
 spot. There is no other place in the vicinity, either upon the 
 creek or channel resembling it. 
 
 The writer has been at some labor to thus arrange authori- 
 ties on this question, and has given in detail all facts that have 
 come under his notice, making the subject as broad as possible 
 in order to set at rest (if the egotistical expression may be 
 allowed) for all time the location of the Griffon's birthplace. 
 
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 This view is from a portion of a map "drawn in 1688, by order of the Governor 
 and Intendant of New France." Lake Ontario, the Falls, Niagara River and Lake 
 Erie are distinctly represented. A dotted line represents the portage on the American 
 side of the river from Fort Niagara, by the Falls, to the place of building the Griffon. 
 There is also a rude semblance of a cabin at the last named place, together with a 
 view of the Griffon entering Lake Erie. The legend on the map is ■' Cabane on le 
 Sr de la Salle a fait fair e une barque." (Cabin where the Sieur de La Salle caused 
 a bark to be built.) 
 
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 On the 26th day of June, 1891, a party of observation, which 
 was to consist of Messrs. Peter A. Porter and Th. V. Welch of 
 Niagara Falls, Louis J. Allen, Chief Engineer U. S. N., Wm. 
 Fleming, of Buffalo, and the writer, proceeded, with the ex- 
 ception of Messrs. Welch and Allen, who were unavoidably 
 detained, to Lewiston, for the purpose of critically examining 
 the route by which La Salle had, in 1678, carried up the 
 " Three Mountains " his supplies ; also to ascertain the local- 
 ity of the tramway by which the goods of the early French 
 traders were hoisted to their summit. No vestige of the 
 latter remains, nor could its exact location be determined. 
 After due examination, and taking all conditions into consid- 
 eration, the writer came to the conclusion that the present 
 path up the Mountain is either the original one, or so nearly 
 so, to be almost identical with that traversed by La Salle and 
 his men when carrying their anchors, guns and other material 
 for the completion of the " Griffon " above the Falls of Niag- 
 ara, for the reason that on either side of this path there is not 
 the natural incline with which to make as an easy ascent. 
 Besides being in some places very abrupt or abounding with 
 debris, swampy land, etc. The present path also terminates 
 at top, within 100 feet of the edge of the precipice on the 
 river side, and being between it and the remains of Fort 
 Gray, erected during the war of 18 12. 
 
 The route taken by the party of June 26th, commenced at 
 a ravine where it is said La Salle built some cabins, this being 
 the plateau of th.e first mountain, thence by a path up to the 
 plateau of the second mountain ; thence by a steeper and more 
 
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 difficult path to the top of the third mountain, which ends at 
 the level of the Lewiston escarpment, thence is a level road to 
 the Falls. 
 
 Upon our arrival at Fort Gray, we beheld the Lake Ontario 
 in the distance ; upon our right, the fertile plain in which 
 rests the quiet village of Lewiston ; on the left, the heights 
 opposite, then the declivity, terminating at the village of Ni- 
 agara-on-the-Lake, with Fort Niagara opposite. Between 
 these lofty hills and wooded shores the mighty Niagara glides 
 along very peacefully, after having, for a distance of seven 
 miles, reveled in turbulence unequaled, almost, by other water 
 upon the globe. At our left, under the dilapidated Suspension 
 Bridge, is the remnant of that " Rock of a prodigious heighth, 
 lying by the rapid Currents we have already mentioned," but 
 which is now almost hidden by the fallen rocks and earth of 
 the hills. Here at our feet lay the way up which Father 
 Gabriel, who, " tho' of Sixty-five Years of Age, bore with 
 great Vigor the Fatigue of that Voyage, and went thrice up 
 and down those three Mountains, which are pretty high and 
 steep." " Our men," continues Hennepin, " had a great deal 
 of trouble, for our Anchors were 'so big, that four Men had 
 much ado to carry one, but the Brandy we gave them was 
 such an Encouragement, that they surmounted cheerfully all 
 the Difficulties of that Journey, and so we got on board our 
 Ship all our Provisions, Ammunition and Commodities." 
 
 Thus as we stood upon this height, we saw in retrospect 
 these pioneers entering the river on that St. Nicholas day of 
 1678, chanting Te Deum, and some days later taking refuge 
 under the protection of that " High Rock," looking across the 
 angry water filled with floating ice, to the great " Three 
 Mountains," which they afterwards surmounted after under- 
 going numerous hardships, as related by Father Hennepin, 
 and now after 200 St. Nicholas' days have come and gone, the 
 same scenes that met their view is beheld by ours, with 
 scarcely any change of the beautiful prospect which unfolded 
 itself to their sight. After our arriving at the height, and in 
 commemoration of their faith and patience, their unfaltering 
 trust that the future would be all they desired, we drank to 
 
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 their memory, standing and in silence. No prospect can bet- 
 ter repay those interested in our local history than the one 
 from the heights of Lewiston on a bright day, and a climb up 
 the path over which these pioneers toiled is a trip well worth 
 taking. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HENNEPIN. 
 
 FRENCH. 1683. L'A. -"- 
 
 Description de la Louisiane nouvellement decouverte an 
 Sud' Oiiert de la Nouvelle France, Par ordre du Roy. Avec 
 la Carte du Pays : Les Moeurs & la maniere de vivre des 
 Sauvages. Dediee a sa Majeste. Par le R. P. Louis Henne- 
 pin, Missionnaire Recollet & Notaire Apostolique. 
 (monogram of) A. A 
 
 A Paris, chez la Veuve Sebastien Hurs', rue Saint Jacques, 
 a I'lmage S. Jer8me, pres S. Severin. 
 
 M. DC. LXXXIII. 
 Avec privilege dv Roy. 
 
 Map by Guerard. Carte de la Nouville France et de la 
 Louisiane Nouvellement decouverete dediee Au Roy I'an 
 1683. Par le Reuerend Pere Louis Hennepin, Missionaire 
 Recollect et Notaire Apostolique. Privilege granted Sept. 3, 
 1682, registered Sept. 10. Printing completed Jan. 5, 1683. 
 
 The map carries the Mississippi to below the mouth of the 
 Illinois, but does not indicate the Ohio or Missouri. Pictures 
 a tree bearing the French arms, and marks the spot near Lake 
 Buade, and a church and "Missions des Recollects," near the 
 Lake des Assenipoils. 12'' pp. (12) 312. 
 
 FRENCH. 1684. L'A. 
 
 Copies of a second edition with the same notes as to print- 
 ing, etc., but have on title, Apostolique, in a line by itself, and 
 A Paris, Chez Amable Auroy, Proche la Fountaine S. Severin 
 (monogram). 
 
 M. DC. LXXXIV. 
 
S2 
 
 The monogram A. A. on both editions is for Amable 
 Auroy. 
 
 FRENCH. 1685. (?) L'A. * 
 
 La Nouvelle France, ou la Description de la Louisiane, 
 connue sous le nom de Misissipi. Nouvellement Decouverte 
 par ordre du Roy. 
 
 Avec les Moeurs & la maniere de vivre des Sauvages, & les 
 premieres habitations de nos Frangois. Dediee a sa Majeste. 
 Par le R. P. Hennepin, Missionaire RecoUet & Notaire 
 Apostolique. 
 
 (emblem) 
 Sur L'Imprime a Paris 
 M D C 
 12" dedication pp. 2, and pp. 80. Paper covers. No maps 
 or plates. 
 
 ITALIAN. 1686. L'A. -::- 
 
 Descrizione della Lvigiana. Paese nuouamente scoperto 
 nel I'America Settentrionale, sotto gl'auspicij del Christianis- 
 simo Lvigi XIV. Con la Carta Geografica del medesimo, 
 Costumi, e maniere di viuere di que'Seluaggi. Del P. Lvigi 
 Hennepin Francescano Recolletto, e Missionario Apostolico 
 in questa Scoperta. Tradotta del Francese, e Dedicata al 
 Reverendiss. P. D. Ludovico de Conti Gverra Abbate casin- 
 ense di S. Procolo di Bologna. In Bologna, per Giacomo 
 Monti 1686. Conlicenza de Superiori. 
 
 12" pp. 12. 396, with map. On pa. 2, is the Vidit and impri- 
 matur. 
 
 ViDiT. D. Fulgentius Orighettus Clericus Regularis S. 
 Pauli, & Rector Poenitentiarias, pro lUustriss, & Reuerendiss. 
 D. loseph Musotto Vicario Capitulari Bononia;. 
 
 Imprimatur. Fr Angelus Gulielmus Molus Vicarius Gen- 
 eralis S. Ofificij Bononiee. 
 
 Then follows a Dedication by the translator Casimiro Fres- 
 chot, dated Jan. 21, 1686. 10 pages. 
 
S3 
 DUTCH. 1688. L'A. * 
 
 Engraved title. Ontdekking van Louisiania Door den 
 Vader L. Hennepin. Benevens des Beschryving van Noord 
 America door den Heer Denys. t' Amsterdam by Janten 
 Hoorn over het Oude Heere Logement 1688. 
 
 Printed Title. Beschryving van Louisania, Nieuwelijks 
 ontdekt ten Zuid-Westen van Nieuw Vrankrj'k, Door order 
 van den Koenig. Met de Kaarte des Landts, en een nauwk- 
 eurige verhandeling van de Zeden en manieren van leeven 
 der Wilden. Door den Vader Lodewyk Hennepin, Recollet- 
 sche Missionaris in die Gewesten, en Apostolische Notaris. 
 Mitsgaders de Geographische en Historische Beschryving 
 der Kusten van Noord America, Met de Natuurlijke Historie 
 des Landts. Door den Heer Denys, Governeur Lieutenant 
 Generaal voor Zijn Allerchristielijkste Majesteit, en Eigenaar 
 van alle de Landen en Eilanden gelegen van cap de Camp- 
 seaux tot aan cap des Roziers. Vergeirt met Kopere Figuren. 
 (ornament) t Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, Boekverkooper 
 over 't Oude Heeren Logement, in de Histori-Schryver. A. 
 1688. 4° Engraved title, pp. (4.) 158. (5) map, 6 plates pp. (4.) 
 200. (4.) The map is entitled " Kaart van Nieuw Vrankryk 
 en van Louisania." 
 
 FRENCH. 1688. L'A. * 
 
 (The title same as in No. i, down to A'Paris, then add,) a 
 Roman q. in Apostolique. Chez Amable Auroy, rue Saint 
 Jacques a'lTmage S. Jerome, attenant la Fountaine S. Severin. 
 M. DC. XXXVHL Avec Privilege dv Roy. 
 
 i2mo. pages as in No. i. After privilege, " Acheve d'im- 
 primer pour la seconde fois, le 10. Mars. 1688. De I'imprim- 
 erie de Laurent Rondet. Map. 
 
 GERMAN. 1689. L'A. * 
 
 Beschreibung der Landschafft Lovisiana welche auf Befehl 
 des Konigs in Frankreich, neulich gegen Siidwesten Neu 
 Frankreichs in America entdecket worden. Nebenst einer 
 Land-Carten und Bericht von den sitten und Lebens-Art der 
 
54 
 
 VVilden in Selbiger Landschafft. In Franzosischer Sprache 
 heraus gegeben durch P. Ludwig Hennepin Mission. Recoil, 
 und Notarium Apostolicum. Nun aber ins Teutsche uber- 
 setzet. (Ornament.) Nurnberg In Verlag Andreas Otto. 
 1689. 
 
 18° pp. 425. 2 maps. 
 
 Louisiana ends on page 352, then another title. 
 
 Beschrieburg einer sonderbaren Riese etlicher bisher noch 
 unbekanter Lander und Volcher im Mitter-nachtigen America, 
 welche 1673. durch P. Marquette S. J. und Herrn JoUiet 
 verrichtet worden. Aus dem Franzosischen ins Teutsche 
 ubersetzet. Nurnberg 1689. Map. 
 
 GERMAN. 1690. L'A. 
 
 Neue Entdeckungen vieler sehr grossen Landschaften in 
 America zwischen Neu Mexico und dem Eis-Meer gelegen, 
 iibersetzt von J. G. Langen. Bremen. 1690. 
 
 ITALIAN. 1691. L'A. 
 
 An abridgment of the Bologna edition of 1686, and was 
 printed in 1691, in the " II Genio Vaganti," at Parma, Italy, 
 with a map entitled " Nouva Francia 1 Luigiana." 
 
 GERMAN. 1692. L'A. 
 
 Same title as German 1689. Nurnberg, Andreas Otto, 1692. 
 18°. pp. 427. Map. 
 
 FRENCH. 1697. N. D. * 
 
 Engraved Title. Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres grand 
 Pays Situe dans I'Amerique Par R. P. Lovis de Hennepin, 
 a Utrec chez Guiliame Broedelet. 
 
 Printed Title. Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres grand Pays 
 Situ6 dans I'Amerique, entre Le Nouveau Mexique, et la Mer 
 Glaciale, Avec las Cartes, & les Figures necessaires, & de plus 
 I'Historie Naturelle & Morale, & les advantages, qfion en pent 
 tirer par I'etablissement des Colonies. Le tout dedie a Sa 
 
55 
 
 Majeste Britannique. Guillaume HI. Par le R. P. Louis 
 Hennepin, Missionaire Recollect & Notaire Apostolique. A. 
 Utrecht. Chez Guillaume Broedelet, Marchand Libraire. 
 
 MDCXCVII 
 
 12" pp. (70) 1-312, 10 pp. marked 313* 313-506. 2 Maps and 
 2 plates, Niagara, and the buffalo. 
 
 This work begins with Epistre Dedicatore 23 pp., Avis an 
 Lecteur, 26 pp. Table de Chapitres, 19 pp. The te.xt begins 
 with some general remarks, and biographical details, followed 
 by a description of Louisiane to page 200, when transcriptions 
 are taken from Le Clercqs Etablissment de la Foi. From 
 page 249 to 312, is an account of a voyage down the Missis- 
 sippi. From page 313 to finish is in different type from the 
 preceding, the chapter heads having Arabic figures, while the 
 earlier portion have Roman numerals. The head lines also 
 differ, being nouvell decouv. before page 313, and Nouvel 
 Decouv. after. The spacing, etc. is different, tending to show, 
 as some writers suggest, that this later matter was set up by 
 different hands and in a different place or office. The type on 
 last page is smaller than the body of the work. The map 
 continues the river Mississippi to the Gulf. The name of the 
 Missouri is written Otenta. Places the Chiquaka on the river 
 Tamaroa below it, and the Akansa on the river Guma, and to 
 two rivers below, on the west, gives the names of Hiens and 
 Sablonniere, and omits the tree with the arms of France. 
 
 FRENCH. 1698. N. V * 
 
 Nouveau voyage d'un Pais plu grand que I'Europe. Avec 
 les reflections des enterprises du Sieur de la Salle sur les 
 minies de St Barbe &c. Enrichi de la Carte, de figures ex- , 
 pressives, des moeurs, & manieres de vivre des Sauvages du 
 Nord ; & du Sud, de la prise de Quebec Ville Capital la de 
 Nouvelle France, par les Anglois, & des avantages qu'on pent 
 retirer du chemin recourci de la Chine & du Japon, par le 
 moien de tant de Vastes Contrees c^ de Nouvelles Colonies. 
 Avec approbation & dedie a sa Majeste Guillaume II L Roy 
 de la Grande Bretagne par le R. P Louis Hennepin, Mission- 
 
56 
 
 aire Recollect & Notaire Apostolique. A. Utrecht Chez An- 
 toine Schouten, Marchand Libraire 1698. 
 
 8° pp. (70.) (2.) 389. 4 plates, I map. This edition has the 
 star pages, similar to the edition of 1697, but is uniformly 
 printed as regards the headings. 
 
 GERMAN. 1698. N. V. * 
 
 Neue Reise Beschreibung durch viele Lander weit grosser 
 als gantz Europa die nenlichst zuichen Neu Mexico und dem 
 Eiss Meer in America entdecket worden. Worinn enthalten 
 eine besondere beschreibung der Lander Sitten und Gawohn- 
 beiten der wilden Volcker in dem Sud und Norder Theil der 
 neuen Welt, und was fiir Vortheil man aus der Auffrichtung 
 neuer Colonien in diesen Landern schopffen konne ; Wie auch 
 eine Anweisung, durch einen Kurzern Weg als bisher ohne 
 Pasfrung der Equinoctial-Linie nach China und Japan zu 
 Kommen. Uebst einer genauen Erzehlung von dem unter- 
 frangen des Heme von Salle auff die Gold-Minen zu St 
 Barbe, imgleichen von der Groberung der Stadt Quebeck in 
 Canada burch die Engellander. 
 
 In Franzofischer Sprache beschreiben, und mit Genehmhal- 
 tung Sr Konigl Majest. von Gross Brittannien Wilhelm III. 
 unterthanigst uberreichet von R. P- Ludovico Hennepin, 
 Missionario der Recollecten und Notario Apostol. Ins 
 Teutsche uberserst von M. J. G Langen, Candid Theol. 
 
 Bremen. 
 
 In verlegung Phil. Gottfr. Saurmans. 
 
 1698. 
 
 Dedicated to Einer Excellentz dem Herren Weippert Ludo- 
 wig Fabricio, Einer Hochfurstl Durchl, zu Brannschweig und 
 Llineburg, wureklich geheimbten Kathe, Vice Canzlern und 
 Hochbetrauten Ministro. 
 
 18° dedication (4) (2.) (9.) (26.) 2 blank leaves. 288. Should 
 have maps and plates. 
 
 DUTCH. 1698. N. V. * 
 
 Engraved Title. Reyse door Nieuwe Ondecte Landen. 
 
57 
 
 Printed Title. Aenmerckelycke Historische Reys Besch- 
 ryvinge Door verscheyde Landen veel grooter als die van 
 geheel Europa onlanghs ontdeckt. Behelsende een nainvkeu- 
 rige Beschrijvinge van de gelegentheyd, natuur, en vrught- 
 baerheyd, van't Zuyder, en Noorder geedelte van America ; 
 mitsgaders de gedaente, aerd,manieren kledingen,en't geloove 
 der talrijke Wilde Natien, aldaer woonende. Het beleg en 
 veroveringe van Quebek, de Hooftstad van Canada, door de 
 Engelschen. Degewigtigeaenmerkingenop de onderneminge 
 van de Heer de la Salle, op de Goud-Mijnen van St. Barbara, 
 met veel meer andere waeragtige en seldsame geschiedenissen. 
 En in't besonder de aenwijsingen om door een korten wegh son- 
 der de Linie Equinoctiael te passeeren, na China en Japan te 
 komen ; en de goote voordeelen die men hier door, als mede 
 door de nieuwe Volckplantingen in dese vrughtbarre Landen 
 sou Konnen trecken. Alles met een nette Kaert tot dese aen- 
 wijsinge nodig, en kopere Platen verciert. Met Approbatie 
 van Wilhelmus den III. Koningh van Groot-Britanie. En 
 aan deselve sijne Majesteyt opgedragen door Lodevvyck Hen- 
 nepin, Missionaris Recollect, en Notaris x\postolick. 
 
 Tot Utricht, By Anthony Schouten 1698. 
 
 4° pp. (28) 142. Last page misprinted 242. (18.) 4 plates 
 and map, " Carte d'un Nouveau Monde entre le Nouveau Mex- 
 ique et la Mer Glaciale. Gasp. Bouttats fecit. 
 
 FRENCH. 1698. N. D. * 
 
 Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres grand Pays Situe dans 
 I'Amerique entre Le Nouveau Mexique et la Mer Glaciale, 
 Avec les Cartes, et les Figures necessaires, et de plus I'His- 
 torie Naturelle et Morale, et les avantages qu'on en pent tirer 
 par I'etablissment des Colonies. Le tout dedie Missionaire 
 Recollect & Notaire Apostolique. A. Amsterdam, Chez 
 Abraham van Someren. MDCXCVIII. 
 12" pp. (70.) 506. Engraved title. 
 
 ENGLISH. 1698. N. D. or Combination. 
 
 A new Discovery of a Vast Country in America, extending 
 
 above Four Thousand ^Miles, between New France and New 
 
58 
 
 Mexico ; with a Description of the Great Lakes, Cataracts, 
 Rivers, Plants, and Animals. Also, the manners. Customs 
 and Languages of the several native Indians; and the advan- 
 tage of Commerce with those different Nations. With a Con- 
 tinuation, Giving an Account of the Attempts of the Sieur de 
 la Salle upon the mines of St Barbe &c. 
 
 The Taking of Quebec by the English ; with the Advan- 
 tages of a Shorter Cut to China and Japan. Both parts illus- 
 trated with maps, and Figures, and Dedicated to his Majesty 
 K. William. By L. Hennepin now resident in Holland. To 
 which are added Several New Discoveries in North America 
 not publish'd in the French Edition. London, Printed for M. 
 Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Man- 
 ship. 1698. 
 
 8°. Engraved and printed Titles, pp. (20) 299; pp. (32), 
 178. (2). 2 maps, 7 plates. This is the first English Edition. 
 
 ENGLISH. 1698. N. D. Combination. * 
 
 Similar Titles, with this difference. That H. Bon is im- 
 printed on one line, and wick, follows on the next. 
 
 8° pp. (20) 243. (32) 228. 2 maps, 7 plates. Apparently not 
 a reprint of the preceding, as in the " Continuation," it reads: 
 " Men ought to be satisfy'd." Again, there are two Chapters 
 numbered XXII. and this edition has 585 pages. 
 
 ENGLISH. 1698. N. D. Combination. 
 
 Same title as first edition. Otherwise apparently as No. 2, 
 but without the error in numbering of two chapters XXII. 
 
 ENGLISH. 1699. N. D. Combination. 
 
 Same title as first edition ; but the imprint reads, London, 
 Printed for Henry Bonwicke, at the Red Lion, in Saint Paul's 
 Church Yard 1699. 
 
 8°. Engraved and printed Titles, pp. (20) 240. (24) 216. 
 2 maps, 6 plates. 
 
 In this edition the Continuation begins thus : " Reason 
 ought to rule Men in e^U cases," etc. And on the title, reads 
 
59 
 
 at the Red Lyon, etc., and without the error in numbering of 
 chapter XXII. 
 
 GERMAN. 1699. N. D. * 
 
 Neue Entdeckung vieler sehr grossen Landschaften in 
 America zwischen Neu-Mexico und dem Eyss-Meer gelegen 
 welche bishero denen Europdern noch ubekand gewesen und 
 an Grosse ganz Europa ubertressen. Bie auch eine dollige 
 Beschreidhung des erschchredlichen Wasser : Falles von Ni- 
 agara, welcher der grosseste in der ganzen Welte ict, und des 
 grossen Flusses Meischchappi, so in einer Lange von 800 
 Meisstenburch diese Lander flieffet, nemlich von bessen Uhr ; 
 sprung biss zu seiner : Ergieffung in den Golff von Mexico 
 Imgleichen der wilden Einwoner Barbarischen Manieren und 
 Lebens-Ahart, sambt vielen Seltenbeiten. 
 
 Er Gross-Britannis, Maj. Wilhelm dem III., in Frankosis. 
 Sprache iiberrichet und beschriben von R. P. Ludovv Henne- 
 pin, Misonario Recollect & Notario Apostol. 
 Ins Deutsche ubersetz buch. 
 M. J. G. Langen C. Th. 
 Mit-Land-Charten und Kupffer Figuren. 
 Bremen. 
 In verlegung Philip Gottfr Saurmans, Buchh i 
 
 SPANISH. 1690. N. D 
 
 Relacion de un Pais que nuevamente se ha descubierto en 
 la America Septentrional de mas estendido que es La Europa. 
 Y que saca a luz en Castellano, debajo de la proteccion de el 
 Ex™". Sr. Duque de el Infantado, Pastrana, &c., el Sargento 
 General de Batalla Don Sebastian Fernandez de Medrano, 
 Director de la Academia Real y Militar de el Exercito de los 
 Pa'ises Bajos. Emblem. 
 
 En Brusselas, 
 
 En Casa de Lamberto Marchant, 
 
 ' Mercader de Libros. 
 
 M. DC. XCIX. 
 
6o 
 
 12° pp. (2.) dedication to Senr. Don Juan De Dios, etc. 
 Prologo, pp. (4.) 86. Map and 2 plates, one armorial repre- 
 sentation : the other representing Europe, Asia, Africa, and 
 America by figures, supporting the globe, etc. 
 
 DUTCH. 1699. N. D. * 
 
 Nieuwe Ontdekkinge Van een groot Land, gelegen in 
 America, tusschen nieuw Mexico en de Ys-Zee. Behelzende 
 de gelegentheid der zelve nieuwe ontdekte Landen : de Riv- 
 eren en groote Meeren in't zelve. En voor al van de groote 
 Rivier Meschasipi genaamd. De Kolonien die men by de 
 selve tot voor deel van dezen Staat, zo ten opzichte van den 
 Koophandel, als tot verzekeringe der Spaansche Gond-Mijnen, 
 zon Konnen oprechten. De uitneemende vruchtbaarheid 
 van't Land ; overvloed der Visschen in den Rivieren. De 
 gedaanten, imborst, geloove en oeffennigen der Wilden aldaar 
 woonende. De vreemde Dieren in haare Bosschen en velden. 
 Met een Korte aanmerkinge over de zo genaamde Straat 
 Aniam ; en't middel om door een korteweg zonder de Linie 
 ^-Equinoctiaal te passeeren, na China en Japan te Komen met 
 veele curiense dingen meer. Alles met goede Kaarten tot 
 deze aanwijzinge nodig, en met Kopere Plaaten vercierd. Met 
 goed-vindinge van den Koning van Engeland Wilhelmus 
 den in. In't licht gegeeven: En aan de Zelve zijne Ma- 
 jestrit opgedraagen, door Lodewyk Hennepin, Missionaris 
 Recollect en Notaris Apostoliek. Tot Amsterdam, by Abra- 
 ham van Someren. 1699. 
 
 4° pp (26) 220. (14). 2 maps, 2 plates. The map is entitled 
 "Carte d'un tries grand pais. Chez A. van Somerin a Am- 
 sterdam " Amerique Septentrionalis. L V. Vianen, fecit. 
 
 DUTCH. 1702. N. D. * 
 
 Printed Title. Nieuwe Ontdekkinge in America Gedan 
 Door L. Hennepin, t Amsterdam By Andries van Damme, 
 Bockverkoper 1702. 
 
 Printed Title. Nieuwe Ontdekking van een groot Land, 
 gelegen in America, tusschen nieuw Mexico en de Ys-Zee. 
 
6i 
 
 Behelzende degelegenheid der zelve nieuw ontdekte Landen, 
 de Rivieren en groote Meeren, en voor al de groote River 
 Meschasipi genaamd : de Colonien die men by de selve tot ver- 
 zekeringe der Spaansche Gond-Mijnen, zon konnen oprechten: 
 d'nitneemende vructhbaarheid van't Land : overvloed der 
 Visschen in de Rivieren : gedaante, inborst, geloove, en oef- 
 feningen der Wilden aldaar woonende : de vreeinde Dieren in 
 haare Bosschen en Velden, &c. Met een korte aanmerkinge 
 over de zo genaamde Straat Aniam ; cn't middel om door een 
 Korte weg, zonder de Linie jiEquinoctial te passeeren, na 
 China en Japan te komen. AUes met goede Kaarten tot daze 
 aanwijzinge nodig, en met Kopere Plaaten vercierd. Door 
 Lodewyk Hennepin, Missionaris Recollect en Notaris Apos- 
 tolick. Benevens een Aanhangsel, behelzende een Reize door 
 een Gedeelte van de Spaansche West-Indien, en een Verhaal 
 van d'Expeditie der Franschen op Cartagena Door L. (ouis) 
 de C. (apin). Emblem. Tot Amsterdam by Andries van 
 Damme, Boekverkooper op't Rokkin bezyden de Beurs 1702. 
 8° pp. (11.) (13.) 220.(14). 2 maps, 2 plates. Annhangsel. 
 I plan, 47. 
 
 DUTCH. 1704. N. D. * 
 
 Printed Title. Aenmerkelyke voyagie Gedaan na't Gede- 
 elte van Noorder America, Behelzende een nieuwe ontdek- 
 kinge van een seer groot Land, gelegen tusschen Nieuw 
 Mexico en de Ys-Zee. Vervattende de gelegentheid der 
 nieuw ontdekte Landen : de Rivieren en groote Meeren in't 
 zelve. En voor al van de groote Rivier Meschasipi genaamd. 
 De Kolonien die men by de selve tot voordeel van dezan 
 Staat, zo ten opziehtevanden Koophandel, als tot verzekeringe 
 der Spaansche Gond-Mijnen, zon kunnen oprechten. De nit- 
 nemende vruchtbaarheid van't Land : overvloed der Visschen 
 in de Rivieren. De gedaanten, inborst, geloove en oeffennin- 
 gen der Wilden aldaar woonende. De vreemde Dieren in 
 haare Bosschen en Velden. Met een Korte aanmerkinge over 
 de zo genaamde Straat Aniam ; en't middel om door een 
 korte weg : zonder de Linie Equinoctial te passeeren, na 
 
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 China en Japan te komen met veele andere bysonderheden 
 meer. Door Lodewyk Hennepin, Missionaris Recollect en 
 Notarius Apostolick. Desen laatsten Druk is niet alleen ver- 
 cierd, met noodige kaarten maar ook met verscheide Kopere 
 Print-verbeeldingen, voyt te voorem soo gesten. Emblem. 
 
 Te Leyden, By Pieter van der Aa. 1704. 
 
 8>p(8)(i2)2i9.(i3.) 
 
 DUTCH. 1704. N. D. 
 
 Aanmerkelyke voyagie gedaan na't gedeelds van Noorder 
 America, behelzende een nieuwe ontdekkinge van een seer 
 grootland, gelegen tusschen Nieuw-Mexico en de Ys-zee, &c. 
 (Same as edition of 1704, with imprint of Pieter van der Aa.) 
 Rotterdam : Barent Bos. 1704. 
 
 12° pp (22) 200. (14). 2 maps, 6 plates. 
 
 FRENCH. 1704. N. D. 
 
 Voyage Curieux Du R. P. Louis Hennepin, Missionaire 
 Recollect, & Notaire Apostolique, Qui contient une Nouvelle 
 Decouverte D'un Tres-Grand Pays, situe dans I'Amerique, 
 Entre le Nouveau Mexique & la Mer Glaciale, Avec Toutes 
 les particularitez de ce Pays, & les avantages qu'on en peut 
 tirer par I'etablissment des Colonies, enrichi de Cartes & 
 augmente de quelques figures entaille donee necessaries. 
 Outre cela on a aussi ajoute ici un Voyage Qui contient une 
 Relation exacte de I'Origine, Mouers, Coutumes, Religion, 
 Guerres & Voyages des Caribes, Sauvages des Isles Antilles 
 de I'Amerique, Faite par le Sieur De La Borde, Etnploy6 a la 
 Conversion et des Caribes, Et tiree du Cabinet de M. Blon- 
 del. A La Haye, Chez Jean Kitto, Marchand Libraire, dens 
 le Spuy-straet. 1704. 
 
 i2mo. Two titles, one engraved, one printed, pp (32) 604. 
 (32). 2 maps, 6 plates. 
 
 FRENCH. 1704. N. D. * 
 
 Same titles, with the imprint A Leide : Chez Pierre van der 
 Aa. M D CC IV. 
 
63 
 
 FRENCH. 1704. N. D. * 
 
 Voyage on Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres grand pays, dans 
 TAmerique entre le Nouveau Mexique et la Mer Glaciale, 
 Par le R. P. Louis Hennepin, Avec toutes les particularitz de 
 ce Pais, & de celui connu sons le nom de La Louisiane ; les 
 advantages qu'on en peut tirer par I'etablissement des Colo- 
 nies enrichie de Cartes Geographiques. Augmente de quel- 
 ques figures en taille douce. Avec un voyage Qui contient 
 une Relation exacte de I'Origine, Moeurs, Coutumes, Religion, 
 Guerres & Voyages des Caraibes, Sauvages des Isles Antilles 
 de I'Amerique, Faite par le Sieur de la Borde, Tiree du Cabi- 
 net de Mousr Blondel. Emblem. A Amersterdam, chez 
 Adriaan Braakman. MDCCIV. Marchand Libraire pr^s le 
 Dam. 
 
 12", pp (34) 604.(32) 493. Printed 293. 2 maps, engraved 
 and printed titles, plates and maps. 
 
 Besides the plates of the Falls of Niagara, the Buffalo, the 
 Monstrance, takmg goods from a Cache, the view of the 
 building of the " Griffon " appears for the first time, as an en- 
 graving. Hennepin ends at page 516, and then the " Voyage 
 qui Content," ending at page 604. 
 
 FRENCH. 171 1. N. D. * 
 
 Voyages Curieux et Nouveaux de Messieurs Hennepin & 
 De la Borde, Ou Ton voit une Description tres Particuliere, 
 d'un Grand Pays dans I'Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, 
 & la Mer Glaciale, avec une Relation Curieuse des Caraibes 
 Sauvages des Isles Antilles de TAmerique, leurs Moeurs, 
 Contemes, Religion &c. Le toute accompagne des Cartes & 
 figures necessaires. Emblem. A Amsterdam, Aux depens de 
 la Compagnie. MDCXI. 
 
 12". Title oblong, and printed. Same misprint, 293 for 
 493- 
 
 FRENCH. 1712. N. D. * 
 
 Voyage ou Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres grand Pais, dans 
 I'Amerique entre la Nouveau Mexique et la Mer Glaciale. 
 
64 
 
 Par R. P. Louis Hennepin. Avec touts las particularitez de 
 ce Pais, & de celui connu sous le nom de la Louisian qu'on en 
 peut tirer par I'etablissment des colonies enrichie des cartes 
 Geographiques. Augmente de quelques figures en taille 
 douce avec un voyage qui contient une relation exacte de 
 rOrigine, Moeurs, Coutumes, Religion, Guerres et voyages 
 des Caraibes, Sauvages des Isles Antilles de I'Amerique. 
 Faite par le Sieur de la Borde. Tirce du Cabinet de Mousr 
 Blondel. Emblem. Amsterdam, chez Jacques Desbordes, 
 Libraire vis-a-vis, la Grande Porte de la Bourse. 1712. 
 
 12°. Title, dedication (11.) avis an lecteur(i3) table (9) pp 
 604. Table de matieres 32. Map, 6 plates. 
 
 GERMAN. 1720. N. D. * 
 
 Aussfuhrliche Historische und Geographische Beschrei- 
 bung dess am dem grossen Flusse Mississipi in Nord America 
 gelengen herrlichen Landes Louisiana: In welches die neu- 
 aufgerichtete Franzosieshe grosse Indianische Compagnie 
 Colonien zu sebicken augesangen : worbed zugleich Reflex- 
 ionen iiber die weitbinans schende Deffeins gedachter com- 
 pagnie, und des darnber ent standen action. Handelserdffnet 
 werden. 
 
 Dritte auslag mit neuen Benlagen und Anmerchnugen per- 
 mehner. Leipsiz 1720. 
 
 12° pp (2) 80. Map of Lovisiana am Fluss Missisippi, with 
 a cut of " Der Compagnie Wappen." 
 
 FRENCH. 1720. N. D. * 
 
 Relations de la Louisiane et du Fleuve Mississipi, ou Ton 
 voit I'etat de ce grand Pais & les advantages qu'il peut pro- 
 diure &c. 
 
 A Amsterdam. Chez Jean Frederich Bernard. 
 M D CC XX. 
 
 ENGLISH. 1.720. N. D. * 
 
 A Discovery of a Large, Rich and Plentiful Country in the 
 North America ; extending above 4000 Leagues. Wherein, 
 
65 
 
 By a very short Passage, lately found out, thro' the Mer-Bar- 
 mejo into the South Sea; by which a considerable Trade 
 might be carry'd on, as well in the Northern as the Southern 
 Parts of America. London: Printed for W. Boreham, at 
 the Angel in Pater-Noster Row. 
 
 8° pp (2.) pp 24, then comes 17 to 22 inclusive. (2) list of 
 new books by W. Boreham. 
 
 FRENCH. 1720. L'A. * 
 
 La Nouvelle France, on la description de la Louisiane, 
 connue sous le nom de Mississipi, nouvellement decouverte par 
 ordre du Roy. Avec les meurs et la maniere de vivre des 
 Sauvages, et les premieres habitations de nos Francois. A 
 Paris. Chevelier Bon Reposa. 
 
 12". pp : 5-89-80. 
 
 DUTCH. 1722. N. D. 
 
 Nieuwe Ontdekking, van groote Lande in Amerika, tuss- 
 chen Nieuw-Mexico en de Ys-Zee. (Same as the Edition of 
 1702, to the word Capin.) Met Kaarten en Kopere Plaat. 
 Amsterdam 1722. 4to. 
 
 FRENCH. 1725. 
 
 D'un Pays Plus grand qui I'Europe situe dans I'Amerique 
 (Vol. 5, 3d Ed.) 
 
 Amsterdam. Chez Jean Frederich Bernard. 1725. 
 
 FRENCH. 1727. N. D. * 
 
 Decouvert d'un Pays plus grand que I'Europe, situe dans 
 I'Amerique entre le Nouveau Mexique & la Mer Glaciale. 
 Tome V. A Amsterdam Jean Frederich Bernard. 
 
 12" pp (2.) 464 (10.) map. 
 
 FRENCH. 1727. N. D. * 
 
 Nouvelle Decouvert D'un Pays plus grand de I'Europe, 
 situe dans I'Amerique. A Amsterdam, chez Jean Frederich 
 
66 
 
 Bernard. Printed in Vol II. Garcilaso de la Vega, Historic 
 des Incas. 
 
 4° pp. 48. (3). 
 
 FRENCH. 1734. N. V. 
 
 Voyage en un Pays plus grand que I'Europe, entre la Mer 
 Glacial & le Nouveau Mexique. Par le P Hennepin ; Printed 
 in Recuil de Voyages au Nord, contenant Divers Memoires 
 tres utiles au commerce & a la Navigation. Tome V. Trois- 
 ieme Edition augmente d'un Relation. 
 
 A Amsterdam chez Jean Frederich Bernard. 
 MDCCXXXIV. 
 12° pp. 197. 370. 
 
 FRENCH. 1737. 
 Same title, and published as N. D. of 1727. 
 
 FRENCH. 1737 and 1738. 
 Same title, and published as N. D. of 1727. 
 
 GERMAN. 1739. N. D. 
 
 Neue Reise Beschreibung nach America, und derer bisher 
 noch unbekandten Lander und Volcker, vornemlich von der 
 Landschafft Lovisiana, und den Sitten und Lebens Art der 
 Wilden in selbiger Landschafft. Aus dem Franzosischen 
 libersetzt und mit Kupfern geziert. 
 
 Nlirnberg, Im Verlag Christ. Fried. Feisze. 1739. 
 
 18°, pp 425. 2 maps. 
 
 GERMAN. 1742. N. D. * 
 
 Reisen und seltsahme Begebenheiten ; Oder sonderbare 
 Entdeekung vieler sehr grossen Lander in America. Welche 
 biszhero noch unbeckannt gewesen, und an Grosse gantz 
 Europa iibertressen, aus dem Franzosischen iiberertzt. Mit 
 Land-charten und Kupfern. 
 
 Bremen, bey Nathanael Saurmann. 1742. 
 
 18° pp (20) 382. 2 maps, and plate of the Falls of Niagara. 
 Maps dated Bremen, 1698 and 1699 respectively. 
 
67 
 
 1804. 
 
 Andrew Ellicott's Journal, published in 1804. In the preface 
 speaks of Hennepin and La Salle, also quotes from the Lon- 
 don edition of 1698. 
 
 1812. 
 
 In Major Amos Stoddard's " Sketches of Louisiana," Phila. 
 181 2, pp 15 to 24, in a historical description of Louisiana, 
 gives extracts from Hennepin's work. 8vo. 
 
 1820. * 
 
 In volume I of " Archoelogia Americana," published at 
 Worcester, Mass., pp 61 to 104, inc., extracts are made from 
 " New Voyage," etc., and is the first paper in the volume. 8vo. 
 
 1834. * 
 
 A Manual for the use of Visitors to the Falls of Niagara, 
 etc., by Joseph Wentworth Ingraham. Buffalo, N. Y., 
 Charles Faxon. Pa. 18. 18°. 
 
 1835. 
 
 A Guide to Travelers visiting the Falls of Niagara, by Ho- 
 ratio A. Parsons. Pa. 52. 2d Edition. Buffalo, N. Y., O. G. 
 Steele. 18°. 
 
 1836. * 
 
 The Book of Niagara Falls, by IT. A. Parsons. Pa. 52. 3d 
 Edition. Buffalo, N. Y., O. G. Steele. 18°. 
 
 1838. 
 
 The Tourist, or pocket Manual for travelers, etc. New 
 York. Pa. 56. 18°. 
 
 The Falls of Niagara, or travelers guide, etc., by Samuel 
 De Veaux. Buffalo, N. Y. Pa. 29. 18°. 
 
68 
 
 1840. * 
 Steele's Book of Niagara Falls. Buffalo, N. Y., O. G. 
 
 Steele. Pa. 54. 7th Edition. 18°. 
 
 1841. * 
 The Travelers own Book, etc. Buffalo, N. Y. Faxon & 
 
 Read. Pa. 113. 18°. 
 
 1842. * 
 
 Pictorial Guide to the Falls of Niagara, etc., by J. W. Orr. 
 Buffalo, N. Y. Salisbury & Clapp. Pa. 201. 18°. 
 
 1844- 
 Every Man his own Guide to the Falls of Niagara, by T. 
 G. Hulett. 4th Edition. Buffalo, N. Y. Faxon & Co. Pa. 
 II. 18°. 
 
 1845. 
 Pictorial Guide to the Falls of Niagara, etc , by J. W. Orr. 
 Buffalo, N. Y. Salisbury & Clapp. Pa. 201. 18°. 
 
 1845. * 
 
 Description of Niagara, from various sources, etc., by Wil- 
 liam Barham. Gravesend, England. Pa. 86. 4to. 
 
 1845. 
 Travels in North America in the years 1841-42, by Charles 
 Lyell, F. R. S. Vol. i. pa. 28. With a fac-similie view of the 
 Falls, from edition of 1697. New York. Wiley & Putnam. 
 12". 
 
 1848. * 
 
 Steele's Book of Niagara Falls, etc. Buffalo, N. Y. Oliver 
 G. Steele. Pa. 56. 12°. 
 
 1848. * 
 Niagara, a Poem, by Rev. C. H. A. Bulkley. New York. 
 
 Leavitt, Trow & Co. Pa. 136. 8°. 
 
 1849. * 
 Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase, by O. Turner. 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. Pp. 134. 193. 4. 4to. 
 
69 
 
 1850. 
 Minnesota Historical Collections. Vol. i, pp. 302. 313. 4to. 
 
 1850. * 
 New Guide Book of Niagara Falls, for Strangers, by Geo. 
 
 H. Hackstaff (editor of the " Iris," of Niagara). Niagara 
 Falls, N. Y. Pa. 29. 12°. 
 
 1851. * 
 Louisiana, its Colonial History and Romance, by Charles 
 
 Gayarre. New York. Pp. 29. 35. 410. 
 
 1851. * 
 
 History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham 
 Purchase, by O. Turner. Pp. 24. 29. 4to. 
 
 1851. * 
 
 New Guide Book of Niagara Falls, for Strangers, by Geo. 
 H. Hackstaff (editor of the " Iris," of Niagara). Niagara 
 Falls, N. Y. Pa. 29. 12". 
 
 1851. * 
 Peck's Tourist's Companion to Niagara, etc. Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 W. B. & C. E. Peck. Pa. 135. 12". 
 
 1852. * 
 History of Buffalo, b}^ Chas. P. Dwyer. Hall & Mooney. 
 
 Pp. II. 16. 8°. 
 
 1852. ^■ 
 
 The Ontario & St. Lawrence Steam Boat Co.'s Hand Book 
 for Travelers to Niagara, etc , by J. Van Cleve. Buffalo, N. 
 Y. Jewett, Thomas & Co. Geo. H. Derby & Co. Pa. 59. 
 
 12". 
 
 1852. * 
 
 Every Man his own Guide at Niagara Falls, by F. H. John- 
 son. Buffalo, N. Y. Phinney & Co. Pa. 33. 12". 
 
JO 
 
 1852. * 
 
 Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley, by 
 John Gilmary Shea. New York. Redfield. 
 
 Commencing on page 107, ending on page 163, is the narra- 
 tive of the voyage to the upper Mississippi, by Father Louis 
 Hennepin, translated from his " Description de la Louisiana." 
 Paris, 1683. 4to. 
 
 1853. 
 Every Man his own Guide at Niagara Falls, by F. H. John- 
 son. Buffalo, N. Y. Phinney & Co. Pa. 33. 12". 
 
 1853. 
 Hackstaff's New Guide Book of Niagara Falls. Niagara 
 Falls, N. Y. W. E. Tunis & Co. Pa. 63. I2^ 
 
 1856. * 
 
 A Guide for every Visitor to Niagara Falls, etc. Buffalo, 
 N. Y., Phinney & Co. And Niagara Falls, A. H. Curtis. Pa. 
 
 33. 12^ 
 
 1862. * 
 
 The History of Erie County, Pa., by Laura G. Sanford. 
 Philadelphia, Pa. J. B. Lippincott & Co. Pp. 335. (10) 8°. 
 
 1863. * 
 Guide to Niagara Falls and its Scenery, etc., by F. H. John- 
 son. Philadelphia, Pa. Geo. W. Childs. Pa. 28. 12°. 
 
 1864. * 
 Same title and observations. Pa. 28. 12". 
 
 1864. * 
 
 " Buffalo and the Senecas," by William Ketchum. Vol. i, 
 pp. 51. 68. 4to. 
 
 1868. * 
 
 The Falls of Niagara, being a complete guide, etc. Lon- 
 don. T. Nelson & Sons. Pa. 6. 12" 
 
71 
 
 1869. * 
 Tunis's Topographical and Pictorial Guide to Niagara Falls, 
 
 etc. Detroit, Mich., and Niagara Falls, N. Y. Pa. 64, 12°. 
 
 1870. * 
 Decouvertes et Etablissments de Cavelier De La Salle, De 
 
 Rouen. Dans L'Amerique du Nord. (Lacs Ontario, Erie, 
 Huron, Michigan, Vallees de I'Ohio et du Mississippi, et 
 Texas.) Par Gabriel Gravier, Membre de la Societie de 
 I'Historie de Normandie. Paris, Maisson neuve et cie, Li- 
 braire Editeure 15 Quai Voltaire, 1870. 
 
 Pp (4) (4) portrait de La Salle, his coat of arms. 2 plans pp 
 356. (37.) (17.) and " Carte de la Louisiane." 4to. 
 
 1871. * 
 Guide to Niagara Falls, and its Scenery, by F. H. Johnson. 
 
 Philadelphia. Geo. W. Childs. Pp. 27. 72. 12". 
 
 1872. * 
 Niagara, its History and Geology, Incidents, Poetry, etc., 
 
 by Geo. W. Holley. New York. Sheldon & Co. Pa. 17. 12°. 
 
 1872. * 
 
 The Early Out-Posts of Wisconsin, by Daniel S. Durrie, 
 Librarian State Historical Society. Paper read Dec. 26th. 
 12 pp. Pamphlet. 
 
 1874- 
 Horner's Buffalo and Niagara Falls Guide, etc. Buffalo, 
 N. Y. W. T. Horner, A. M. Pa. 63. 12". 
 
 1874. * 
 
 Tunis's Guide Book, Niagara, Montreal, etc. Detroit, 
 Mich. W. E. Tunis. Pa. 64. 12°. 
 
 1876. * 
 
 Centennial History of Erie County, New York, by Chris- 
 field Johnson. Pp. 38. 44. 8°. 
 
72 
 
 1876. 
 
 History of St. Paul, Minn., by J. Fletcher Williams. Pp. 
 
 22. 25. 8°. 
 
 1878. 
 A Popular History of the United States, by Wm. CuUen 
 Bryant and Sidney Howard Gay. New York. Charles 
 Scribner's Sons. Pp. 51 1-5 14, Hennepin and La Salle. Pa. 
 511, fac-simile of the Griffon. 
 
 1879. * 
 Discovery and Conquests of the North-West, by Rufus 
 
 Blanchard. Wheaton, 111. Pp. 24. 53. 8°. 
 
 1880. * 
 A Description of Louisiana, by Father Louis Hennepin, 
 
 Recollect Missionary. Translated from the edition of 1683, 
 and compared with the Nouvelle Decouverte, the La Salle 
 documents, and other contemporaneous papers. By John 
 Gilmary Shea. New York. John G. Shea. 
 
 8° pp. 408. Map, fac-simile of title to edition of 1683. 
 Fac-simile view of the Falls of Niagara, from the edition of 
 1697. 
 
 1880. * 
 
 Bi-Centenary Celebration held at Saint Paul, Minn, Satur- 
 day, July 3d. Oration delivered by Ex-Governor Cushman 
 K Davis. Published in Sunday Globe, Vol. 3, No. 186, July 
 4th. 8°. Pamphlet and newspaper. 
 
 1880. 
 Edward D. Neill "Writings of Hennepin." A paper read 
 before the Historical Society of Minnesota, in November. 
 
 1880. 
 In the " Deutsche Pioneer," August and October, by H. A. 
 Rafferman. 
 
73 
 
 i88o. * 
 
 Special Report of the New York State Survey, on the 
 Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls, etc., by James 
 T. Gardner, Director. March 22d. .\lbany, N. Y. Assem- 
 bly Doc. No. 86. 8'. 
 
 i88i. * 
 
 The Preservation of Niagara Falls, by Henry Norman. 
 New York. (Pa. 9, Hennepin.) Pamphlet. P[i. 39. 8°. 
 
 1882. * 
 
 Annals of Fort Mackinac, by Dwight H. Kelton, U. S. 
 
 Arm)'. Chicago. Fergus Printing Co. Pp. iii. (27.) ^3. 
 37. 12 = . 
 
 Allen's Illustrated Guide to Niagara, by H. T. Allen. Buf- 
 falo, N. Y. The Courier Co. Pa. 48 to 58. \2' . 
 
 1S83. 
 
 Notes on Niagara. Illustrated. Chicago. R. Lespinasse, 
 publisher. Pa. 21, Hennepin View. 4to. 
 
 1884. * 
 
 Illustrated Guide to Niagara Falls. Chicago, 111. Rand, 
 McNally & Co. Pa. 15. 12°. 
 
 1885. * 
 
 The Complete illustrated Guide to Niagara Falls and \'i- 
 cinity. Pa. 11. 12^. 
 
 1885. " 
 
 Tugby's Illustrated Guide to Niagara Falls, etc. Niagara 
 Falls. Thomas Tugb}-. Pa. 40. 12°. 
 
74 
 
 iSSs. * 
 
 The Great Cataract llkistrated, by R. Lespinasse. Chicago, 
 111. G. W. Ogilvie. Pj). i6, 17, 18., with a fac-simile of Falls, 
 from print of 1697. 
 
 1885. * 
 
 The Complete Illustrated Guide to Niagara Falls and Vi- 
 cinity. Niagara Falls, N. Y. Gazette Printing House. Pa. 
 
 II. 12. 12". 
 
 1887. * 
 
 The Historical Writings of Orsamus H. Marshall. Alban}-. 
 Joel Munsell's Sons. 8°. 
 
 1887. * 
 
 Niagara and Beyond. Michigan Central R. R. Co. Rand, 
 McNally iS: Co., Chicago, 111. Pp. 195. l^a. 103, Hennepin 
 View. 4to. 
 
 Travels in America. Dem. Review, 5 : 190, 381. 
 (j. H. Perkins), N. Am., 48: 70. 49: 258. 
 (VV. F. I^oole), Dial, i : 253. 
 
 Never in Albany. Historical Magazine, 10: 268. * 
 
 Wisconsin Historical Collections, i: 66. 3: 107, 108, 1 10, 
 130. 6 : 181. 10 : 285, 286. * 
 
 Folder issued by the New York State Reservation, for the 
 use of Visitors to the Falls of Niagara. Hennepin's view 
 and description. 
 
 1891. * 
 
 Niagara and Chautauqua. Issued by the Western New 
 York & Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Illustrat- 
 ed, Wenborne-Sumner Co. 12". 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LA SALLE. 
 
 FRENCH. 1697. 
 
 Dernieres decouvertes dans I'Amerique septentrionale de M 
 de La Salle, Mises au jour par M Le Chevalier Tonti Gouv- 
 erneur du Fort Saint Louis aux Illinois. Emblem. A Paris 
 au Palais, chez Jean Guiguard, a I'entree de la Grand Salle, a 
 I'image Saint Jean. .M. DC LXXXXVIL Avec Privilege 
 du Roy. 
 
 Pp I- -■ 333- 15- 6. 12-. 
 
 ENGLLSIL 1698. 
 
 An account of Monsieur de La Salle's last expedition and 
 discoveries in North America. Presented to the French 
 King and published by Chevelier Tonti, Governor of Fort 
 Saint Louis in the Province of the Illinois. Made English 
 from the Paris original. London, published for J. Tonson at 
 the Judges Head, and S. Bucklv at the Dolphin in Fleet 
 Street, and E Knaplock at the Angel and Crown in Saint 
 Pauls Church Yard. 1698. 
 
 12". pp 21 1. 44. 
 
 FRENCH. 1713. * 
 
 Journal Historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de la Sale 
 sit dans le Golfe de Mexique, pour trouver I'embourchure, iS: 
 le cours de la Riviere de Missicipi, nommee a present la Ri- 
 viere de Saint Loiiis, qui traverse la Louisiane. Oii Ton voit 
 I'Historie tragique de sa mort, & plusieurs choses curieuses 
 du nouveau monde. Par Mousieui- Joutel, I'un des Compag- 
 
76 
 
 nons de ce Voyage, redige iSl mis ca ordre par Monsieur De 
 Michel. Emblem. A Pari.s, chez Estienne Robinot, Libraire, 
 Quay & attenant la Porte des Grands Augustins, a I'Ange 
 Gardien. M D C C XIII. Avec Approbation & Privilege 
 du Roy. 
 
 12°. Lecture and approbation (28) License to publish (3). 
 Preface (10) 371. Table(5.) Original large folding map, with 
 a cut of the Fails of Niagara in the upi)er left hand corner. 
 
 ENGLISH. 1714. * 
 
 A Journal of the last voyage performed by Monsr de la 
 Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, to find out the mouth of the 
 Missisipi River ; containing an account of the settlements he 
 endeavour'd to make on the Coast of the aforesaid Bay, his 
 unfortunate Death, and the Travels of his Companions for the 
 Space of Eight Hundred Leagues across that Inland Countr\' 
 of America, now cali'd Louisiana, (and given by the King of 
 France to M. Crozat,) till they came into Canada. 
 
 Written in French by Monsieur Joutel, a Commander in 
 that Expedition ; and Translated from the Edition just pub- 
 lish'd at Paris, with an exact map of that vast Country, and a 
 Copy of the Letters Patents granted by the K. of France to 
 M. Crozat. London, Printed for A. Bell at the Cross-Keys 
 and Bible in Cornhill, B. Lintott at the Cross Keys in Fleet 
 street, and J. Baker in Pater-Noster Row, 1714. 
 
 8vo. The bVench Bookseller to the reader and reply (21.) 
 Preface (8.) Adv to the British gentry (i.) Original map 
 from the Paris edition, pp 205. Index (5.) 
 
 1858. 
 
 Voyages and enterprises pour feu M Robert Cavelier Sieur 
 de la Salle, etc. A'Mante, De La Presse Cramoisy de Jean- 
 marie Shea. Translation of same in Shea's Early Voyages. 
 Albany, 1S61. Pp. 13, 42. 
 
 1859. 
 
 The Devil's Hole, with an account of a visit made to it in 
 1679: by Robert Cavelier de la Salle, to which is added a 
 
71 
 
 memoir of the life of La Salle, L)y Nelson Colt. 4th Edition- 
 Niagara City. Printed by N. T. Ilackstaff, at the Herald 
 Ofifice. 1859. 'S°- Pp- "5. 
 
 1879. 
 The Bursting of Pierre Margry's La Salle Bubble, by John 
 Gilmary Shea. (Reprinted from the New York Freeman's 
 Journal.) New York. T. B. Sidebotham, printer, 28 Beek- 
 man St. Pamphlet. 24 pp. 
 
 1889. 
 
 Ceremonies attending the unveiling df the Statue of 
 Robert Cavalier de la Salle, at Lincoln I^ark, Chicago, Octo- 
 ber 1 2th, 1889. Chicago, 111. Knight t*\: Leonard Co., Print- 
 ers. 4to. Pp. 23. 
 
 This monument was erected at the expense of the Hon. 
 Lambert Tree, late minister to Brussels and St. Petersburg. 
 
 FRENCH. 1889. * 
 
 La Vieux Lachine et le Massacre du 5. Aout 1689. Con- 
 ference donnee devant la paroisse de Lachine, le 6 Aout 1889. 
 par Desire Girouard, Conseil de la Reine, docteur en Droit, 
 depute. Montreal Cie d'Imprimiere et de Lithographic 
 Gebhardt. Berthiaume, No. 30, rue St Gabriel. Pp 76. II- 
 lustated. 1889. Map. 
 
 ENGLISH. 1890. 
 
 Canadian Pen and Ink Sketches, by John Eraser. Montreal. 
 Montreal Gazette Printing Co. 1890. Pj). (i)(3) (2) 389. 
 
 ENGLISH. 1890. * 
 
 The Story of Tonty, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood. 
 Chicago, 111. McClurg & Co. Illustrated. Pp. 227. 
 
 (R. H. Clarke.) Cath. World, 20: 690, 833. 
 
 Account of American Indians. Mag. Am. His., 2; 238. 
 
78 
 
 (E. Jacker.) Am. Cath. Quarterly, 3: 404. 
 
 Mississippi. De Bow, 22 : 13. 
 
 Expedition of. (G. Ellis.) N. Am., no: 260. 
 
 Expedition of. (F. Parkman.) N. Am. 125 : 427. 
 
 Exploration Miss. M. Am. His., 2: 551. 
 
 Last Expedition. West. M., i : 507. 
 
 Life of. (J. Sparks.) Sparks' Am. Biog., 11 : i. 
 
 Memoir to Frontenac, 1680. His. Mag., 5: 196. 
 
 Rivers and Peoples Discovered by, 168 1-2. M. Am. His., 
 2 : 619. 
 
 Settlement in Texas, site of. (J. G. Shea.) His. M., 14: 308. 
 
 Robert Cavelier. (G. Gravier.) M. Am. His., 8: 305. 
 
 Did he discover the Mississippi? (P. Margry.) Am. Antiq. 
 2 : 206. 
 
 Did he discover the Mississippi? M. Am. His., 8: 182. 
 
 Did he discover the Mississippi before 1673 ? (H. H. Hurl- 
 bert.) M. W. His., 5 : 438. 
 
 Did he discover the Mississippi? (C. \V. Butterfield.) M. 
 W. His., 5:51, 721. 
 
 Discovery of the Ohio River, 1769-70. (C. VVhittlesee.) 
 M. W. His., i: I. 
 
 Memoir of. (H. PL Hurlbert.) M. Am. His., 8 : 620. 
 
 Wisconsin Historical Collections. Vol. i : 66. 3 : 107, 117, 
 130. 5: 322. 6: 181. 9*: 110-112, 119. 10*: 284, 285, 289, 
 321, 322. II*: 15, 29, 33, 66, 178. 
 
POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 Since the above has been put in type the undersigned has 
 disposed of his entire Niagarana, which includes all works 
 quoted as being in his possession in the above list, besides 
 views, maps, guide books, and other historical matter relating 
 to the Falls and its vicinity, to Mr. Peter A. Porter, of Niagara 
 Falls, N. Y. 
 
 It is with regret that he parts with his collection, for it has 
 been to him a source of great enjoyment, and as an offset to 
 the cares of business; but he is compensated in a degree by 
 knowing that it is now in the hands of an enthusiast, and who 
 is also a descendant of one of the first proprietors of the 
 site of Niagara Falls, on the American side. 
 
 As the writer and late owner is now free to express himself, 
 he assures the reader that, with the collection owned by Mr. 
 Porter at time of purchasing, he has now, without exception, 
 as far as the writer's knowledge extends, the most complete 
 and unique collection of this kind in existence, and it is at 
 the place where it properly belongs, and where it is to be 
 hoped it will always remain. 
 
 CYRUS IC. REMINGTON, 
 
 493 Prospect Avenue. 
 Buffalo, N. Y., July 15th, 1891.