Portage Paths: The Keys of the ContinentHulbert, Archer Butler
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Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent
Hulbert, Archer Butler
Portages -- North America
[81] One of the most curious of errors. This river was called by the
Indians Eel River, and is the name translated by the French, _Rivière
l'Anguille_. Hamilton mistook this for _l'Anglais_, which name he used.
Cf. Imlay's _America_, p. 402, where the name is spelled _Longuille_;
_American State Papers_, vol. iv, p. 132; Gamelin's _Journal_, _Id._, p.
93.
[82] _Michigan Pioneer Collections_, vol. ix, p. 409.
[83] _The St. Joseph-Kankakee Portage_, Northern Indiana Historical
Publications, no. 1.
[84] _Id._
[85] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents_, vol. lxvi, p. 285; cf.
_Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, p. 179.
[86] _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, pp. 178-79; cf.
_Michigan Pioneer Collections_, vol. ix, p. 368; _Magazine of Western
History_, vol. iii, p. 447.
[87] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents_, vol. lix, note 41.
[88] _Id._, p. 161.
[89] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. iii, ch. iii.
[90] Butterfield, in _Magazine of Western History_, v, pp. 51, 721-24;
_Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, p. 66, note.
[91] Butterfield's _Discovery of the Northwest_, p. 67, ff.
[92] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents_, vol. lix, pp. 105, 107.
[93] _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, pp. 223, 387; Turner's
_Indian Trade of Wisconsin_.
[94] _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, pp. 148, 164.
[95] _Id._, pp. 262, 292, 300, 302, 312, 323, 328.
[96] _Id._, p. 337.
[97] _Id._, vol. vii, p. 371; vol. x, p. 222; vol. xi, pp. 183, 361,
399, 403, 404, 409-15; vol. xii, pp. 331, 400.
[98] Harmon's _Journal_ (Andover, 1820) p. 41.
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7. For longtitude and latitude, the minutes and seconds are placed as
single quotes within brackets. For example: 38° 47['] 20[''].
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