The Magazine of History With Notes and Queries, 1905, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Magazine of History With Notes and Queries, 1905, Vol. 2 In the latter half of the seventeenth century, French explorers, forerunners of the fur trade, and with them the missionaries of the Cross, came from the great lakes of the St. Lawrence to the upper part of the Mississippi. Jean Nicollet, in 1634-35, had extended his explorations to the Falls of St. Mary, at the mouth of Lake Superior, and to the Fox River, above Green Bay. At the western limit of his travel in Wisconsin he learned of a great water, beyond the Fox River, which he supposed to be an ocean. It was the Mississippi (Great River). Previously, through nearly a hundred years, the rude maps that resulted from De Soto´s expedition had been accepted as evidence that the area draining to the Gulf of Mexico had no great northward extent. First to reach the upper Mississippi were Groseilliers and Radisson, coming, if I have rightly identified their route and time, in 1655, from Green Bay and Lake Winnebago to Prairie Island, on the west side of the main channel of the great river above Lake Pepin, in the area that is now Minnesota, and returning thence to Lower Canada in 1656. Another expedition, by way of Lake Superior, to a higher part of this river, was made by these brothers-in-law in 1659-60. The manuscript narratives of Radisson, describing their expeditions, which he called "voyages," appear to have been written in 1665, with a slight addition three years later, their purpose being to promote the interests of these two adventurers when first seeking alliance with the English for establishing trade with Hudson´s Bay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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