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[35] _A Monograph of Historic Sites in the Province of New Brunswick_, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, vol. v, sec. ii, pp.

213-357.

[36] _A Monograph of Historic Sites in the Province of New Brunswick_, pp. 233-239.

[37] _The History of the District of Maine_, p. 32.

[38] _Crown MSS._, cxix, 25.

[39] _Board of Trade Maps_, vol. 24, no. 45.

[40] _Add. MSS._, 21, 686, pp. 47-54.

[41] _The Century Magazine_, vol. lxv, no. 4 (February, 1903).

[42] Belknap: _History of New Hampshire_, vol. ii, p. 290.

[43] _Id._, p. 291.

[44] _Id._, p. 294.

[45] _Id._, p. 303.

[46] _Id._, p. 305.

[47] _Id._, p. 305, note.

[48] _Board of Trade Maps_, vol. 24, no. 51.

[49] _Crown Maps_ (British Museum), vol. cxxi, no. 18.

[50] _Board of Trade Maps_, case 11, no. 29.

[51] _Crown Maps_ (British Museum), vol. cxxi, no. 11

[52] _Board of Trade Maps_, case 11, no. 28.

[53] _Crown Maps_ (British Museum), vol. cxxi, no. 16.

[54] Sylvester's _Northern New York_, ch. x.x.xiii.

[55] _Northern New York_, pp. 275-281.

[56] _A Review of the Military Operations in North America_ (London, 1757), pp. 42-43.

[57] See _Historic Highways of America_, vol. iii, pp. 71-73.

[58] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Doc.u.ments_, vol. lxix, p. 159.

[59] _Id._, p. 161.

[60] Celoron's Journal in Darlington's _Fort Pitt_, p. 12.

[61] _The Old Portage Road_; published in the Fredonia (N. Y.) _Censor_, January, 1891.

[62] See _Historic Highways of America_, vol. iii, pp. 74-79.

[63] Affidavit of Stephen Coffin, _Colonial Records State of New York_, vol. vi, p. 834.

[64] Taylor's _The Old Portage Road_, Fredonia _Censor_, January, 1891.

[65] For a map of this portage see Hulbert's _Red-Men's Roads_, p. 33.

[66] Croghan's Journal, _Historic Highways of America_, vol. ii., pp.

55-62; Bonnecamp's Journal, _Jesuit Relations and Allied Doc.u.ments_, vol. lxix, pp. 183-191.

[67] "The Wabash Trade Route in the Development of the Old Northwest,"

_Johns Hopkins University Studies_, series xxi, nos. 1-2 (January-February, 1903).

[68] Fox-Wisconsin, Chicago-Illinois, St. Joseph-Kankakee, St.

Joseph-Wabash and Maumee-Wabash portage routes.

[69] Margry: _Decouvertes des francais dans L'Amerique Septentrionale_, vol. ii, p. 296.

[70] _Id._, vol. i, pp. 377-78; Fiske's _Discovery of America_, vol. ii, p. 534.

[71] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. vi, p. 164.

[72] For references to proposed routes by land and water against Fort Detroit and Fort Pitt see b.u.t.terfield's _Washington-Irvine Correspondence_, pp. 92, 110, 118, 121, 140 (note), 354-55; _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, pp. 128, 130; _Irvine Papers_ (MSS.), Wisconsin Historical Society, vol. ii, A A. pp. 66, 67; Washington MS.

_Journal_, September 1784 (State Department).

[73] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. ii, p. 107.

[74] Irvine-Washington, February 7, 1782 (_Washington-Irvine Correspondence_, p. 92).

[75] The following are notes on and extracts from Hamilton's _Journal_ preserved at Harvard University.

[76] Little River.

[77] "The Beaver are never molested at this place by the Traders or Indians, and soon repair their dam, which is a most serviceable work upon this difficult communication."--Account of the Expedition of Lieut.-Gov. Hamilton, _Michigan Pioneer Collections_, vol. ix, p. 493.

"The Beavers had worked hard for us, but we were obliged to break down their dam to let the boats pa.s.s...."--Hamilton to Haldimand, November 1, _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, p. 181.

[78] Wabash.

[79] Under this date Hamilton wrote to Haldimand from "Camp at Pet.i.te Riviere," concerning the portage path from the Maumee to Little River, as follows: "This carrying place is free from any obstructions, but what the carelessness & ignorance of the French have left, & would leave from Generation to Generation. An intelligent person at a small expense might make it as fine a road as any within 20 miles of London. The Woods are beautiful, Oak, Ash, Beech, Nutwood, very clear & of a great growth ...

in a ridge near the road I found a sea fossil, to find Marine productions on this hauteur des terres is to my mind more curious than their being found in the Alps--there are no mountains in view from Detroit to this place so that these appearances cannot readily be accounted for from volcanoes of which there is no trace to be observed."--_Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, p. 179.

[80] Aboite River, Allen County, Indiana.

[81] One of the most curious of errors. This river was called by the Indians Eel River, and is the name translated by the French, _Riviere l'Anguille_. Hamilton mistook this for _l'Anglais_, which name he used.