Note 93 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

[The original edition was published at Paris in 1758. An English version, The History of Louisiana, or the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina; containing a Description of the Countries that lie on both sides of the River Mississippi, appeared in London in 1763 (two vols.) and 1774 (one vol.), in an abridged and distorted form (Carter-Brown, vol. iii. no. 1,352; Sabin, x. 223; Field, Indian Bibliography, nos. 910-912). H. H. Bancroft (Northwest Coast, i. 598) mentions a different translation published in 1764; but I have not seen it. Field says of the original: “It is difficult to procure the work complete in all the plates and maps, which should number forty-two.”—Ed.]