Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . faithful Tonty, whom he hadmet at Mackinaw in the spring of 1681, after aseparation of more than a year, he extended hisexploration to the mouth of the Mississippi, ofwhich he took formal possession on April 9, 1682,in the name of Louis the Grand, King of Franceand Navarre. This was the first expedition ofwhite men to pass down the river and determinethe problem of its discharge into the Gulf ofMexico. Returning to Mackinaw, and again to Illinois,in the fall of 1682, Tonty set about carrying intoeffect La Salles scheme of fortifying The Rock,to which refer
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . faithful Tonty, whom he hadmet at Mackinaw in the spring of 1681, after aseparation of more than a year, he extended hisexploration to the mouth of the Mississippi, ofwhich he took formal possession on April 9, 1682,in the name of Louis the Grand, King of Franceand Navarre. This was the first expedition ofwhite men to pass down the river and determinethe problem of its discharge into the Gulf ofMexico. Returning to Mackinaw, and again to Illinois,in the fall of 1682, Tonty set about carrying intoeffect La Salles scheme of fortifying The Rock,to which reference has been made under thename of Starved Rock. The buildings are saidto have included store-houses (it was intended asa trading post), dwellings and a block-houseerected on the summit of the rock, and to whichthe name of Fort St. Louis was given, while avillage of confederated Indian tribes gatheredabout its base on the south which bore the nameof La Vantum. According to the historian,Parkman, the population of this colony, in the.
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