A map of the next year (1689), also in the Archives, claims to be based on “Mémoires et relations qu’il a eu soin de recueillir pendant pres de 17 années.” Harrisse thinks this also a copy by De la Croix, and notes others of the probable dates of 1692 and 1699 respectively.[620] Harrisse also records[621] a manuscript map, “composée, corrigée, et augmentée sur les journaux, mémoires, et observations les plus justes qui en ont été f^{ tes}. en l’année 1685 et 1686,” which is also preserved in the French Archives; and a _Carte Gēralle du voyage que Mons^r De Meulles ... a fait; ... commencé le 9^e Novembre et finy le 6^e Juillet, 1686_,[622] which was dedicated to Seignelay in the same year.
Parkman[623] says of the maps of Franquelin subsequent to his Great Map of 1684, that they all have more or less of its features, but that the 1684 map surpasses them all in interest and completeness.
It is convenient to complete here this enumeration of the maps of the western lakes and the Mississippi basin before we turn to La Salle’s explorations from the Gulf side.
One of the earliest of the printed maps is that called _Partie occidentale du Canada, ou de la Nouvelle France, ou sont les nations des Ilinois, de Tracy, les Iroquois, et plusieurs autres peuples, avec la Louisiane nouvellement découverte, ... par le P. Coronelli, corrigée et augmentée par le Sr. Tillemon à Paris, 1688_, of which the annexed sketch follows a copy in Harvard College Library. This was united with the _Partie orientale_ in 1689 in a single smaller map.[624]
[Illustration: CORONELLI ET TILLEMON, 1688.]
The routes of several of the early explorers, like those of Du Lhut, Joliet, and Marquette (1672), and La Salle (1679-1680), are laid down on a manuscript map, _Carte des parties les plus occidentales du Canada, par le Père Pierre Raffeix, S. J._,[625] which is preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale, and of which a sketch as “Raffeix, 1688,” is given on the next page.
A map of Lakes Ontario and Erie, by the Père Raffeix, is in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris;[626] and from a copy in the Kohl Collection at Washington the sketch on page 234 is taken. It is called, _Le Lac Ontario avec les lieux circonvoisins et particulierment les cinq Nations Iroquoises_.