Note 579 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

Of Thevenot’s text a defective translation was published in London in 1698, as a supplement to an English version of Hennepin. Later and better renderings are in the Historical Magazine, August, 1861, and in part ii. p. 277, etc., of French’s Historical Collections of Louisiana, accompanied by a fac-simile of a map by Delisle showing the routes of the early explorers. This section of Thevenot was reprinted (125 copies) in fac-simile, with the map, in Paris in 1845, for Obadiah Rich. There is a copy of this reprint in the Sumner collection in Harvard College Library, and in the Carter-Brown and Lenox libraries, and the latter library has devoted no. iii. of its Contributions to a Catalogue (1879) to the “Voyages of Thevenot.” The MSS. de la Bibliothèque impériale, viii. 2d part, p. 11, note 1, shows a notice of the life of Thevenot. Harrisse, Notes, p. 140, compares the claims of several manuscripts of this narrative of Marquette.