[79] Under this date Hamilton wrote to Haldimand from "Camp at Petite Riviere," concerning the portage path from the Maumee to Little River, as follows: "This carrying place is free from any obstructions, but what the carelessness & ignorance of the French have left, & would leave from Generation to Generation. An intelligent person at a small expense might make it as fine a road as any within 20 miles of London. The Woods are beautiful, Oak, Ash, Beech, Nutwood, very clear & of a great growth ... in a ridge near the road I found a sea fossil, to find Marine productions on this hauteur des terres is to my mind more curious than their being found in the Alps--there are no mountains in view from Detroit to this place so that these appearances cannot readily be accounted for from volcanoes of which there is no trace to be observed."--_Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, p. 179.
[80] Aboite River, Allen County, Indiana.
[81] One of the most curious of errors. This river was called by the Indians Eel River, and is the name translated by the French, _Rivière l'Anguille_. Hamilton mistook this for _l'Anglais_, which name he used. Cf. Imlay's _America_, p. 402, where the name is spelled _Longuille_; _American State Papers_, vol. iv, p. 132; Gamelin's _Journal_, _Id._, p. 93.
[82] _Michigan Pioneer Collections_, vol. ix, p. 409.
[83] _The St. Joseph-Kankakee Portage_, Northern Indiana Historical Publications, no. 1.
[85] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents_, vol. lxvi, p. 285; cf. _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, p. 179.
[86] _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, pp. 178-79; cf. _Michigan Pioneer Collections_, vol. ix, p. 368; _Magazine of Western History_, vol. iii, p. 447.
[87] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents_, vol. lix, note 41.
[89] _Historic Highways of America_, vol. iii, ch. iii.
[90] Butterfield, in _Magazine of Western History_, v, pp. 51, 721-24; _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, p. 66, note.
[91] Butterfield's _Discovery of the Northwest_, p. 67, ff.
[92] _Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents_, vol. lix, pp. 105, 107.
[93] _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, pp. 223, 387; Turner's _Indian Trade of Wisconsin_.
[94] _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, vol. xi, pp. 148, 164.