The Ship-yard of the Griffon: A Brigantine Built by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, in the Year 1679, Above the Falls of Niagara ... Together with the Most Complete Bibliography of Hennepin that Has Ever Been Made in Any One List ...

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Press of J.W. Clement, 1891 - Cayuga Creek (N.Y.) - 78 pages
 

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Page 58 - Nations. With a Continuation, Giving an Account of the Attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St Barbe Ac. The Taking of Quebec by the English ; with the Advantages of a Shorter Cut to China and Japan.
Page 65 - Leagues wherein by a very short Passage lately found out, thro' the Mer-Barmejo into the South-Sea, by which a considerable Trade might be carry'd on as well in the Northern as the Southern Parts of America. 8vo, half calf, pp.
Page 57 - Cana-|da, door de Engelschen. De gewigtige aenmerkingen op de onderneminge van de | Heer de la Salle, op de Goud-Mijnen van St. Barbara, met veel meer andere | waeragtige en seldsame geschiedenissen. En in't besonder de aenwijsingen om | door een korten wegh sonder de Linie Equinoctiael te passeeren, na China en | Japan te komen ; en de groote voordeelen die men hier door, als mede door de | nieuwe Volckplantingen in dese vrughtbaare Landen sou konnen trecken.
Page 76 - A Journal of the last Voyage performed by Monsr. de la Sale to the Gulph of Mexico, to find out the Mouth of the...
Page 55 - Capitalle de la Nouvelle France, par les Anglois, & des avantages qu'on peut retirer du chemin recourci de la Chine & du Japon, par le moien de tant de Vastes Contrées, & de Nouvelles Colonies.
Page 75 - An account of Monsieur de La Salle's last expedition and discoveries in North America. Presented to the French King and published by Chevelier Tonti, Governor of Fort Saint Louis in the Province of the Illinois.
Page 58 - 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.
Page 76 - River ; containing an account of the settlements he endeavour'd to make on the Coast of the aforesaid Bay, his unfortunate Death, and the Travels of his Companions for the Space of Eight Hundred Leagues across that Inland Country of America, now call'd Louisiana, (and given by the King of France to M.
Page 54 - Other ed. in 1874 and 1880. VI 65° Neue Entdeckungen vieler sehr grossen Landschaften in America zwischen Neu Mexico und dem Eis-Meer gelegen, ubersetzt von JG Langen. Bremen, 1690. Given without any description by the author of Bibliography of Hennepin, in Albany, 1893.

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