Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the more than 270 original illustrations. See 51470-h.htm or 51470-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51470/51470-h/51470-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51470/51470-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/narrcrithistory05winsrich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: y^e). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: M^{rs}). NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA The English and French in North America 1689-1763 [Illustration] NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA Edited by JUSTIN WINSOR Librarian of Harvard University Corresponding Secretary Massachusetts Historical Society VOL. V Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1887, By Houghton, Mifflin & Co. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company. CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. [_The cut on the title shows the medal struck to commemorate the fall of Quebec._] CHAPTER I. PAGE CANADA AND LOUISIANA. _Andrew McFarland Davis_ 1 ILLUSTRATIONS: La Présentation, 3; Autograph of Callières, 4; of Vaudreuil, 5; of Beauharnois, 7; of La Jonquière and of La Galissonière, 8; One of Céloron’s Plates, 9; Portrait of Lemoyne d’Iberville, with Autograph, 15; Environs du Mississipi (1700), 22; Portrait of Bienville, with Autograph, 26; Autograph of Lamothe, 29; of Lepinay, 31; Fac-simile of Bill of the Banque Royale, 34; Plans of New Orleans, 37, 38; View of New Orleans, 39; Map of the Mississippi, near New Orleans, 41; Fort Rosalie and Environs, 47; Plan of Fort Chartres, 54; Autograph of Vaudreuil, 57. CRITICAL ESSAY 63 ILLUSTRATIONS: Autograph of La Harpe, 63; Portrait of Charlevoix, with Autograph, 64; Autograph of Le Page, 65; Map of the Mouths of the Mississippi, 66; Autograph of De Vergennes, 67; Coxe’s Map of Carolana, 70. EDITORIAL NOTES 75 ILLUSTRATIONS: Portrait of John Law, 75; his Autograph, 76. CARTOGRAPHY OF LOUISIANA AND THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN UNDER THE FRENCH DOMINATION. _The Editor_ 79 ILLUSTRATIONS: Map of Louisiana, in Dumont, 82; Huske’s Map (1755), 84; Map of Louisiana, by Le Page du Pratz, 86. CHAPTER II.