Jonathan Carver, one of the earliest American explorers of the Northwest, was born in 1732, and served in the French and Indian War, barely escaping from the massacre of Fort William Henry. In 1766, he went to Mackinac, and thence through Wisconsin and Minnesota, and later explored Lake Superior. His _Travels_ were first published in London in 1778, and two years later he died there in destitute circumstances. For further details see _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vi, pp. 220–237. Carver gives an account of Indian manners and customs; chapter 17, devoted to language, includes a Chippewa vocabulary.—ED. Footnote 15: Long is here following the authority of Father Hennepin, who gives this origin of the name “Canada” in his _New Discovery_ (London, 1698). The real origin of the word is disputed, some deriving it from an Iroquois term meaning “village;” others from Indian terms signifying “at the mouth of the river;” still others, from a term for “lakes,” _i. e._, a country full of lakes.—ED. Footnote 16: The author assumes that Lake Huron is the source of the St. Lawrence, and that Lake Nipissing, which empties into Georgian Bay through the French River, is the source of Lake Huron.—ED. Footnote 17: Trois Rivières, at the mouth of St. Maurice River, where it empties into the St. Lawrence by three channels separated by islands, was ceded (1634) to the Jesuits, who built a fort here. See Sulte, “La Rivière des Trois Rivières,” in Royal Society of Canada _Proceedings_, 1901, sec. i, pp. 97–116.—ED. Footnote 18: A Jesuit mission entitled St. François Xavier was founded for Iroquois converts in 1669. Later it was removed to this village (near Montreal), which was named for an Indian town in the Mohawk Valley, also the seat of a Jesuit mission. The usual orthography is Caughnawaga.—ED. Footnote 19: Long uses as his historical authority the work of Cadwallader Colden (whom he later cites directly), _History of the Five Indian Nations_ (New York, 1727). Colden appears to have taken much of his material from Bacqueville de la Potherie’s _Histoire de l’Amérique Septentrionale_ (Paris, 1722). But Long does not blindly follow Colden, and adds other material.—ED. Footnote 20: The Conoys and Nanticokes were fragments of Indian tribes which had removed from the South—driven forth by the pressure of English population—and with the consent of the Six Nations had settled on the upper waters of the Susquehanna. In the third league the author probably intends to include the so-called “Ohio Indians”—the Miamis (Wanamis), Delawares, Mohicans, Munseys (a sub-tribe of the Delawares), the Wapingers (unidentified), and the Mingoes—who were all subordinate to the Six Nations. The Creeks were a powerful confederacy in Alabama, of which Coweta was the principal war-town on the Chattahoochee River.—ED. Footnote 21: