Note 19 — Front matter

See Prof. N. H. Winchell’s admirable map contained in Volume III, Memoirs of Explorations in the Basin of the Mississippi, St. Paul, 1900. This chart shows with great precision the geographical names and their dates, given prior to Nicollet’s map of 1841, and locates the Iowa on the west bank of the Mississippi, near the “Riviere de Aiounoues” according to Franquelin’s map of 1684, and also in a space bounded on the north and east by the St. Peter’s river (Minisoute Ouadeba or St. Peters river of Jefferys, 1762) and on the south and west by the Riviere aux Liards and Redwood river respectively, of Long. Franquelin’s map, Carte de la Louisiane, a facsimile of which is in the Library of Harvard University, (the original formerly in the Archives of the Marine, in Paris, has been lost), locates the Ai8u8e and the Paote on the Riviere des Ai8u8e (Iowa).