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which locates the Missouri river and from it we are able to 
designate with more exactness the,site of our own State. . 
Franquelin’s map of 1684 éntitled Carte de la Louisiane, 
is stated to embody the results of La Salle’s exploration of. 
the Mississippi, who reached the Gulf in the spring of 1682. 
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