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viously discovered there, he replied to the natives that he 

 was sorry that he had not been made sooner acquainted 

 with their wishes, &c. but that the advanced state of the 

 season prevented his returning to the mouth of the river." 

 No mention is made, in this narrative, of the stream being 

 obstructed with ice, a circumstance, which, had it really 

 occurred, would, we think, have been recorded by de la 

 Harpe, who appears to have been a cai-eful and a curious 

 observer, and who undoubtedly saw le Sueur's original 

 narrative. On the 14th of October the works were com- 

 pleted and were named Fort L'Huillier. 



On the 26th, M. le Sueur went to the mine with three 

 canoes, which he loaded with green and blue earth ; it was 

 taken from mountains near which are very abundant mines 

 of copper, of which an assay was made in Paris by M. 

 L'Huillier in the year 1696. This is the last historical 

 fact of any interest contained in the extract from le Sueur's 

 journal. M. de la Harpe observes, " la suite des memoires 

 de Monsieur le Sueur n'a point paru," which would seem 

 to imply that the former part had been published ; yet we 

 find no notice taken of this traveller's memoirs in any of 

 the catalogues of works on America, to which we have 

 had access. It is not mentioned in the " Bibliothecae Ame- 

 ricanse Primordia," published by a member of the Society 

 for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, Lon- 

 don, 1713; nor in the " Bibliotheca Americana, or Chro- 

 nological Catalogue of curious Books in print or manu- 

 script on the subject of North and South America," in 

 London, 1789; nor in the "Catalogue of Mr. Warden's 

 Books on America, Paris, 1820," from which circumstance 

 we are induced to doubt whether it was ever made public. 

 We even find no account of de la Harpe's manuscript, whence 

 we suppose that it has not yet been brought into notice. 



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