The magazine of American history with notes and queries . red scale of miles into what represents the present region of western New York. Dr. John Gil-mary Shea and General John S. Clark, of Auburn, inform us that they hold this to be the original Jo-liet map, and, further, that it disposes of the notion based upon copies of the map, used to demon-strate that La Salle descended the Ohio. One of these copies is in the possession of Mr. Barlow, butit does not show the Ohio properly as an addition by a later hand, but makes the river appear, falsely,like a part of Joliets original sketch. The map
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . red scale of miles into what represents the present region of western New York. Dr. John Gil-mary Shea and General John S. Clark, of Auburn, inform us that they hold this to be the original Jo-liet map, and, further, that it disposes of the notion based upon copies of the map, used to demon-strate that La Salle descended the Ohio. One of these copies is in the possession of Mr. Barlow, butit does not show the Ohio properly as an addition by a later hand, but makes the river appear, falsely,like a part of Joliets original sketch. The map which we lay before the reader is very valuable, andsupports the view based upon Mr. Barlows map, which, like all his material, he is ever ready, mostcourteously, to place at the use of scholars. Mr. Barlow has another large and beautiful map ofabout the same date, which shows, by putting the Bay of the Holv Spirit at the mouth of the Bu-ada, that the French recognized the Spanish River of the Holy Spirit as the Mississippi. The Editor MILITARY BUTTONS. In the military services of Great Britain and of the United States, as well as inthose of other powers, the respective army regulations prescribing a uniform havegenerally included, as part of the uniform, a distinctive button for each particularregiment, corps, or arm of service. During the War of American Independence theregular continental regiments of the American army were generally uniformed aswell as circumstances would permit, while the militia and levies came into the fieldin the clothes worn by them at home. When the Massachusetts infantry regimentsof the continental line were reorganized in February, 1777, forthe war, the Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Continental Infantrywas formed in Boston from the remains of Colonel Paul Dudley?Sargents regiment, which had done such good service under Gen-eral Washington at the siege of Boston and in the campaign of1776. Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Jackson, of that regiment,who had
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