Title:

Carte de la descouverte du Sr. Jolliet ou l'on voit la communication du Fleuve St. Laurens avec les Lacs Frontenac, Erié, Lac des Hurons et Ilinois : le Lac Frontenac est separé par un sault de demeye lieue du Lac Erié, duquel on entre dans celuy des Hurons, et par une mesme navigation a celuy des Ilinois au bout duquel on va joindre la Riviere Divine par un portage da mille pas qui tombe dans la Riviere Colbert et se descharge dans le Sein Mexique

Authors:

= Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700 = = Franquelin, Jean Baptiste Louis = = Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de 1620-1698 = = Margry, Pierre, 1818-1894 = = Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library) = = Pierre Margry Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library) = = Newberry Library. Manuscript map. Ayer MS map 48 = = France. Service hydrographique. Manuscript map. B 4044-37

Date:

[ca. 1850]

Size:

1 ms. map : hand col. ; on sheet 709 x 1,052 mm.

Notes:

Tracing made ca. 1850 by historian Pierre Margry from ca. 1675 manuscript map variously attributed to explorer Louis Joliet and royal geographer Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin. The original is held by the Service Hydrographique (Paris), no. B 4044-37. See articles by Jean Delanglez in Mid-America: 'Franquelin, mapmaker' n.s. v. 14 no. 1 (Jan. 1943) p. 54-56 and 'The Jolliet lost map of the Mississippi' n.s. v. 17 no. 2 (April 1946) p. 89-93.
Shows region bounded by Montreal, the Great Lakes, the headwaters of the Mississippi, and the course of the Ohio River; includes transcription of letter from Joliet to Louis de Buade, comte de Frontenac.
Scale [ca. 1:2,070,000].
Pen-and-ink (black, red) on two leaves of tracing paper backed by heavy paper to form one sheet.
Forms part of both the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection and the Pierre Margry Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).
Photographic transparency of tracing available in Spec. Coll. Image Index.
Photostat of original map available in the Louis C. Karpinski Map Colletion (Newberry Library).
Smith, C.A. List of ms. maps Ayer Coll., 48.
Ayer ms map proj 97

Call Number:

VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 48

Subjects:

North America - Maps - 1675 - Manuscripts - Facsimiles / Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700 - Travels - Manuscripts - Facsimiles / Maps, Manuscript - Facsimiles