Note 76 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Fort Chartres is stated by Mr. Edward G. Mason, in Illinois in the Eighteenth Century (Fergus Historical Series, no. 12, p. 25), to be sixteen miles above Kaskaskia. In the Journal historique, etc. (Paris and New Orleans, 1831), p. 221, the original establishment of Boisbriant is stated to have been “eight leagues below Kaskaskia,” and (p. 243) it is stated that it was transferred “nine leagues below” the village. French, in his Louisiana Historical Collections, published a translation of a manuscript copy of the Journal historique which is deposited in Philadelphia. His translation reads that the transfer was made to a point “nine leagues above Kaskaskia.” Martin, who worked from still another copy of the Journal historique, states that the establishment was transferred to a point twenty-five miles above Kaskaskia. The “au dessous” (p. 243 of Journal historique, or, as ordinarily cited, “La Harpe”) was probably a typographical error.