According to Hennepin’s own story, some time after his first book was published, he incurred the displeasure of the Provincial of his Order by refusing to return to America, and was in more ways than one so pursued by his superior that in the end he threw himself on the favor of William III. of England, whom he had met at the Hague. Hennepin searched Amsterdam for a publisher of his new venture, but had to take it to Utrecht, where it came out, in 1697, with a fulsome dedication to the English king. It is called in the printed title (the engraved title is abridged): _Nouvelle Découverte d’un très grand Pays, situé dans l’Amérique, entre le Nouveau Mexique et la Mer glaciale_, Utrecht, 1797, pp. 70, 506, with two maps and two plates, one being the earliest view of Niagara Falls, as given on p. 86. [Illustration: HENNEPIN, 1697. This is an extract from the second of Hennepin’s maps, _Carte d’un très grand pays entre le Nouveau Mexique et la Mer glaciale, dediée à Guillaume III.... à Utreght_. The same plate was used in later editions (1698, 1704, 1711, etc.), with additions of many names, and some topographical changes, and alterations of place of publication. Those of 1698 have _à Utreght_ in some cases, and in others _à Amsterdam_.] [Illustration] [Illustration: HENNEPIN, 1697. Extract from _Carte d’un très grand pais nouvellement découvert dans l’Amérique septentrionale, entre le Nouveau Mexique et la Mer glaciale, avec le Cours du Grand Fleuve Meschasipi ... à Utreght_. The same plate was used for the editions, _à Leiden_, 1704, etc. The plate was re-engraved with English names for the English editions.] COPIES: =BA.=, =CB.=, =HC.= REFERENCES: Shea, no. 1; Sabin, no. 31,349; Ternaux, no. 1,095; Harrisse, no. 175; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,513; _Historical Magazine_, vol. ii. p. 346; Beckford, no. 675, bought by Quaritch, and advertised by him at £4 4_s._; Stevens, vol. i. no. 1,434; Leclerc, no. 902, 80 francs; Harrassowitz, _Catalogue_, 1883, no. 58, 50 marks; Brinley, _Catalogue_, no. 4,491. It is usually priced in English catalogues at two or three guineas. The portions repeated in this book from the _Description de la Louisiane_ are enlarged, and the “Mœurs des Sauvages” is omitted.