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for the country which the Recollet, and the Sieur 

 Decan difcdvcred in going up the Miffijtppi from 

 the river of IllinGts to the fall St. Anthony^ does 

 not belong to Louifitina^ but to Canada. The re- 

 lation of a fecond voyage of father Hennepin^ in 

 the Recutil des Voyages du Nord^ bears a title which 

 is equally falfe : voyage to a country greater 

 than Europe, between the frozen ocean, and 

 new Mexico •, for though they have gone very 

 far up the Miffifippi^ they have itill been at a 

 great diftance from the frozen ocean. When 

 the author publifhed this fecond relation he had 

 quarrelled with M. de la Salle ; it feems that he 

 was a6lually forbid returning to .America^ and 

 that the difpleafure this reilridlion gave him, 

 prompted him to retire to Holland, where he 

 publifhed a third v/ork, intitled a new defcrip- 

 tion of a very great colintry, fituated in America 

 between new Mey,ico and the frozen oeean^ with 

 refie6lion3 on M. de la Salle\ undertakings and 

 other things concerning the defcriptiori ^nd hif- 

 tory of North America. 



The author there not only vents all his ill-na- 

 ture on M. de la Salle, but likewife throws it 

 upon France, pretending to have been ill-treated 

 by the nation. He means to fave his honour by 

 declaring that he was born a fubjes51: of the Ca- 

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