The Prairie du Chien _Leader_ says it is not, and never has been, the
intention of Mr. Wiard to test the practicability of his invention
with the boat half built last winter, and which remains in _statue_
[sic] _quo_ yet, being too large, heavy, and unwieldy for the
experiment.
[60] See article by Henry E. Legler, _Early Wisconsin
Imprints: A Preliminary Essay_, in Wisconsin Historical
Society, _Proceedings_, 1905, 121.
[61] The Racine _Advocate_ of March 3, 1846, contains a
half-column notice of Smith’s book, then newly published at
Milwaukee.
[62] Copies of two later editions of the _Poetical
Geography_ are owned by the Wisconsin Historical Library.
One was published at Cincinnati in 1852, the other at New
York in 1853.
[63] This memorandum was prepared for submission to the
Committee on State Affairs of the Wisconsin Assembly in
April, 1917. A bill had been introduced in the assembly by
the committee which provided that the name “Joliet” should
be given to the state park at the mouth of the Wisconsin
River. As a result of the memorandum, the bill was amended
by substituting the spelling “Jolliet” in the name of the
park.
[64] Missing in the original--Transcriber’s Note]
[65] R. G. Thwaites, _The Jesuit Relations and Allied
Documents_ (Cleveland, 1896-1901), LIX, 86, 121, 123, 159.
[66] Cited by Ernest Gagnon, _Louis Jolliet, decouvreur du
Mississippi et du pays des Illinois_ … (Quebec, 1902), 2.
[67] R. G. Thwaites, _Jesuit Relations_, XXX, 181; L, 191.
[68] L. P. Kellogg, _Early Narratives of the Northwest_ (New
York, 1917), 191-92.
[69] P. Margry, _Découvertes et Etablissements des Français_
(Paris, 1876-86), I, 96.
[70] R. G. Thwaites, _Jesuit Relations_, LVIII, 92, 102.
[71] Margry, I, 255.
[72] _Ibid._, 257; Henri Harrisse, _Notes pour Servir a la
histoire … de la nouvelle France et des pays adjacents
1545-1700_ (Paris, 1872, 131, 133).
[73] Margry, I, 259-62.
[74] _Ibid._, 329.
[75] Gagnon (see _ante_), 157.
[76] LXVIII, 86.
[77] Reprinted by permission from the New York _Nation_,
February 22, 1917.
[78] Livingston Rutherfurd, _John Peter Zenger: His Press,
His Trial, and a Bibliography of Zenger Imprints_ (New York,
1904).
[79] From the Prairie du Chien _Courier_, December 1, 1859.
[80] From the Prairie du Chien _Leader_, December 8, 1859.
[81] From the Milwaukee _Sentinel_, December 9, 1859.