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EARLY HISTORY OF THE IOWAY
ОглавлениеThe earliest mention60 of the Tribe is in Le Sueur’s narrative of his expedition in 1700 to the fancied copper mines61 of Riviere de Vert, (the Blue Earth tributary of the Minnesota river), embodied in La Harpe’s mss.62 History of Louisiana, parts of which including Le Sueur’s Narrative, have been recently published.63 As to this mine, we are told in the mss. copy64 in the Congressional Library of the Relation of Penicaud, the shipwright who accompanied Le Sueur—“a man, (says Neill,65 the erudite historian of Minnesota) of discernment but little scholarship”—that:
