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| Keywords: 1698 Louis Hennepin Map of North America - Geographicus - NorthAmerica-hennepin-1698.jpg Artwork de la Louisiane This book featured a map that depicted a speculative course of the Mississippi but did not suggest any exploration of the southward path of the River beyond it conjunction with the Illinois Ten years later La Salle was been assassinated in modern day Texas by Pierre Duhaut Meanwhile Hennepin perhaps seeing an opportunity for self-aggrandizement fled to England it is William III of England who ™s arms appear in the title cartouche of this map where he published another book Nouvelle Decouverte d ™un tres grand Pays Situe dans L ™Amerique and another map “ this one In his second major work Hennepin suggested that for fear of La Salle he had hidden the full extent of his explorations This is where I would like all the world to know the mystery of this discovery that I have hidden until now so as not to inflict sorrow on Sieur de La Salle who wanted all the glory and secret knowledge of this discovery for himself alone This is why he sacrificed several persons to prevent them from publishing what they had seen and from foiling his secret plans In his second enormously popular work; Hennepin claimed that he had explored the full length of the Mississippi before La Salle 1698 dated Size in 21 17 5 object history credit line accession number NorthAmerica-hennepin-1698 Hennepin Louis <i>Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres grand Pays situe dans L'Amerique entre le Nouveau Mexique et la Mer Glaciale </i> Utrecht 1698 Second edition Also Independent Issues as here Geographicus-source PD-Art-100 1698 maps Maps by Louis Hennepin Old maps of North America North America in the 17th century Old maps of New France Maps in French North America | ||||
