Note 91 — Front matter

The Memorial here referred to is in manuscript and among the archives of the government, at Paris. It is one of the most valuable documents on the subject of early nations and country of the Mississippi, and portions of it have been transcribed and translated for the Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. I, p. 279, 1850-56 (reprint 1902). The full title of the work is as follows: Memoriall of M. d’Iberville upon the Country of the Mississippi, the Mobile and its Environs, Their Rivers, Inhabitants and the Commerce which could be Carried on in less than Five or Six Years in Settling it. The quotation by Foster, given above, has been proof read to correspond with the translation here mentioned, and includes only the line preceding the brackets.