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NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA
The English and French in North America 1689-1763
NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA
Edited by
JUSTIN WINSOR
Librarian of Harvard University Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society
VOL. V
Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge
Copyright, 1887, By Houghton, Mifflin & Co. All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.
CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
[_The cut on the title shows the medal struck to commemorate the fall of Quebec._]
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
CANADA AND LOUISIANA. Andrew McFarland Davis 1
ILLUSTRATIONS: La Présentation, 3; Autograph of Callières, 4; of Vaudreuil, 5; of Beauharnois, 7; of La Jonquière and of La Galissonière, 8; One of Céloron’s Plates, 9; Portrait of Lemoyne d’Iberville, with Autograph, 15; Environs du Mississipi (1700), 22; Portrait of Bienville, with Autograph, 26; Autograph of Lamothe, 29; of Lepinay, 31; Fac-simile of Bill of the Banque Royale, 34; Plans of New Orleans, 37, 38; View of New Orleans, 39; Map of the Mississippi, near New Orleans, 41; Fort Rosalie and Environs, 47; Plan of Fort Chartres, 54; Autograph of Vaudreuil, 57.
CRITICAL ESSAY 63
ILLUSTRATIONS: Autograph of La Harpe, 63; Portrait of Charlevoix, with Autograph, 64; Autograph of Le Page, 65; Map of the Mouths of the Mississippi, 66; Autograph of De Vergennes, 67; Coxe’s Map of Carolana, 70.
EDITORIAL NOTES 75
ILLUSTRATIONS: Portrait of John Law, 75; his Autograph, 76.
CARTOGRAPHY OF LOUISIANA AND THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN UNDER THE FRENCH DOMINATION. The Editor 79
ILLUSTRATIONS: Map of Louisiana, in Dumont, 82; Huske’s Map (1755), 84; Map of Louisiana, by Le Page du Pratz, 86.