17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America

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A new discovery of a vast country in America extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico ... With a description of the Great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals: also, the manners, customs, and languages, of the several native Indians; and the advantage of commerce with those different nations. With a continuation: giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. The taking of Quebec by the English; with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan. Both parts illustrated with maps and figures, and dedicated to his Majesty K. William / By L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland. To which is added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.

On the discovery of the Mississippi, and on the South-Western, Oregon, and North-Western boundary of the United States / With a translation form the original ms. of memoirs, etc., relating to the discovery of the Mississippi by Robert Cavelier de La Salle and the Chevalier Henry de Tonty.

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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

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On the discovery of the Mississippi, and on the South-Western, Oregon, and North-Western boundary of the United States / With a translation form the original ms. of memoirs, etc., relating to the discovery of the Mississippi by Robert Cavelier de La Salle and the Chevalier Henry de Tonty.