HENNEPIN'S MAP OP NEW PRANCE, 1683. 



The course of the Mississippi proper, above the Rum river, is probably indicated 

 by an insignificant unnamed stream (mentioned above), while the main stream is 

 continued northwestwardly to a village of Indians named Tinthonka ou gens des 

 Prairies, afterward known as the Tintonwan, who had their village at Big Stone lake 

 at the head of the Minnesota river. It is apparent, therefore, that Hennepin, who 

 did not visit that region, had but a confused idea of the relation of the Minnesota 

 with the Mississippi, and no conception of the importance of the Mississippi above 

 the mouth of Rum river. N. H. w. 



