A new discovery of a vast country in America
Subtitle: extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico. With a description of the Great Lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals, also, the manners, customs, and languagesof the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations. With a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. The taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan
By: both parts illustrated with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William by L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland. To which is added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.
Contributors: Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700.; Marquette, Jacques, 1637-1675.
Series: Library of American civilization -- LAC 13059.
Publisher: Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship
Published: 1698
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687; Indians of North America; New France -- Discovery and exploration; Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803; Great Lakes (North America) -- Discovery and exploration; Montréal (Québec) -- History; Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel
Notes: Engraved half-title: A new discovery of a large country in America by Father Lewis Hennepin.

First English edition.  Shea's no. 1, with t.p. of his no. 2.  cf.  Shea, Descr. of Louisiana, 1880, p. 392.

[Part 1] is a translation of the "Nouvelle découverte"; [pt. 2] of "Nouveau voyage", with special t.p. and pagination: A continuation of the new discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico; ... By L. Hennepin ... London, Printed in the year, 1698.

Appended to the 2d part: Joliet's account, with half-title "An account of several new discoveries in North-America": p. 303-306; "An account of M. la Salle's voyage to the river Mississippi ...": p. 307-317; "A discovery of some new countries and nations in the Northern-America. By Father Marquette", etc. p. 318-355.

Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 13059)

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