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northern shore,—and by this route had struck the shores of Ontario near its 
western extremity. He exhibited to La Salle a map which he had made of 
his route, extending in its most western limit to the land of the Pottawatta- 
mies and other more remote tribes, which the missionaries had not yet 
reached. This map appealed more to the Sulpitians than it did to La Salle, 
who was little inclined to abandon his purpose of finding a more direct 
south-western route. 
‘ So it was resolved that the party going west should be divided, and the 
two divisions parted company, not without some sarcasm on Galinée’s side, 
who would have us believe that La Salle’s determination to stay behind was 
quite as much due to an illness brought on by the sight of some rattlesnakes 
as by any choice of route. Before separating, however, they all joined in the 
celebration of mass, and then the Sulpitians took the trail to the Grand River 
and Lake Erie, as they had learned it from Joliet.” 
GALINEE’S Map. 
Note 3, page 4. 
Winsor, in ‘‘Narrative and Critical History of America,” vol. IV., p. 205, 
says with respect to this subject: ‘ The map of Galinée, says Parkman (‘La 
Salle,’ p. 450), was the earliest attempt after Champlain to portray the great 
lakes. Abbé Faillon, who gives a reproduction of this map (‘Histoire de ia 
Colonie Française, vol. III., p. 305), says it is preserved in the Archives of 
the Marine at Paris, but Harrisse (Notes, etc., No. 200) could not find it there. 
There is a copy of it, made in 1856 from the original at Paris, in the Library 
of Parliament at Ottawa (Catalogue, 1858, p. 1615). Faillon (vol. III., p. 284) 
gives much detail of the journey, for the Sulpitians were his heroes; and 
Talon made a report (N.Y. Col. Docs., IX., 66); but the main source of our 
information is Galinée’s Journal, which is printed, with other papers apper- 
taining, by Margry (vol. I., p. 112), and by the Abbé Verreau for the His- 
torical Society of Montreal in 1875. An English translation of part of it is 
given in Mr. O. H. Marshall’s ‘ First Visit of La Salle to the Senecas in 1669,’ 
which was privately printed in 1874.” Faillon’s reproduction of the map also 
appears in “ The Country of the Neutrals,” by J. H. Coyne (St. Thomas, Ont., 
1895), and “The History of the Early Missions in Western Canada,” by 
Dean Harris. 
Dr. Winsor in his book, “ Cartier to Frontenac,” pp. 220, 221, also says 
with reference to this earliest map of the upper lakes: ‘ One of the marked 
features of the Galinée map is a sketch of the northern shore of Lake Hrie, 
never before comprehended, and henceforward the narrow river of Cham- 
plain was to give place to something like an adequate conception of this 
last of the Great Lakes to be mapped. It is somewhat surprising to find an 
entire absence of the Straits of Mackinaw, and apparently Michigan and 
Huron are made one expanse. It is also clear that Galinée had not yet sur- 
mised what the Jesuit map of Lake Superior was so soon to make clear, that 
the great water beyond the Sault Ste. Marie was larger than the Mer Douce, 
on the hither side of that strait.” 
