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whole northern half of the continent. A sketch of a portion is 
presented here. The Gulf is quite accurately shown. The St. 
Lawrence is no longer extended so far inland. The presence 
of the Mississippi would seem to be suggested by the estuary- 
like mouth of an arborescent drainage system, but its mouth is 
actually located under the name &. de Spiritu Santo, near 
the northwestern corner of the peninsula of Florida. 
In 1672-73 an anonymous map appeared representing the 
course of the Mississippi from the Lakes to the Gulf.* It is, 
however, considered spurious; it was probably prepared by 
the Jesuits and was in advance of the appearance of the results 
of Joliet’s and Marquette’s exploration.f 
The Joliet map of 1673-74 seems, says Winsor, to have 
been made by Joliet immediately after his return to Montreal 
from his expedition down the Mississippi in the summer of 1673 
with Marquette. A copy of a sketch of this map is reproduced 
on the next page. This is considered the earliest map of the 
Mississippi based on actual knowledge. The exploration did 
not extend below the mouth of the Arkansas; but, from the 
course of the river at that point, and from information de- 
rived from the Indians, the explorers reached the conviction 
that the great river emptied into the Gulf and so represented 
it on their map. Joliet applied the name Buade (the family 
name of the Governor Frontinac, to whom the map is 
addressed) to the Mississippi.t This is also the first map 
* This is the map familiarly known as the Thevenot map, published in M. 
Thevenot’s ‘* Recueil de Voyages,’’ in 1681. (A copy of this map is in library 
of the Mo. Hist. Society in St. Louis.) 
+ Nar. and Crit. Hist. Vol. IV., p. 220. 
t Winsor further states in a foot note, on page 209 of Vol. IV, of his 
Nar. and Crit. Hist., that the Jesuit Relations call it the “* Grande Riviere’ 
and the ‘‘ Messi-sipi,’? Marquette calls it ‘* Conception ”’ and in 1674 it was 
called after Colbert. Onp. 79 of Vol. V, he states further that the original 
spelling of the word Mississippi in its nearest approach to the Algonquin 
word is Méché Sébé; Tonty suggested Miche Sepe; Laval Michisepe; Labatt 
softened this to Misisipi; Marquette made it Missisipi; another explorer 
made it Mississipi, and it is so spelled in France at the present. The origin 
of the double pis not known. The river was known as the ‘* Malbanchia’’ 
by the Indians and was termed * Palissado”’ by the Spaniards (Ibid. Vol. 
V, p.18). In 1712 the name “ St. Louis”’ is substituted for Mississippi 
in the Crozat patent and in the same document ‘* St. Philip” is substituted 
for Missouri and ‘St. Jerome” for Ouabache (Ibid. Vol. V, p. 28). 
