The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . began a permanent mission thatbecame the first white settlement within the presentborders of Michigan. When Allouez was called toGreen Bay in 1669, Marquette moved on to La PointedEsprit, leaving in his place at the Sault Father ClaudeDablon, in whose writings we find the first mention ofthe Ontonagon copper region, whence a hundred-poundfragment of ore had been brought to him in 1767, andwhich he himself visited a few years 1 Alexander de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, lieutenant-general. 2 The French speak of mines of copper, and the word is
The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . began a permanent mission thatbecame the first white settlement within the presentborders of Michigan. When Allouez was called toGreen Bay in 1669, Marquette moved on to La PointedEsprit, leaving in his place at the Sault Father ClaudeDablon, in whose writings we find the first mention ofthe Ontonagon copper region, whence a hundred-poundfragment of ore had been brought to him in 1767, andwhich he himself visited a few years 1 Alexander de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, lieutenant-general. 2 The French speak of mines of copper, and the word is oftentransferred into English. It should be translated deposits. Therewere copper mines in the Lake Superior region, but they were thework of the Mound-builders, and were not known to the Indians. I havetried to connect the once famous Ontonagon copper bowlder, now inthe Smithsonian Institution at Washington, with the work of the i a-cieut miners. Se« Smithsonian Institution publications, NationalMuseum report for 1895, pp. 1021-1030. 22. JAMES MARQUETTE, S. J. THE FRENCH OCCUPY THE NORTHWEST To Marquette at La Pointe came the Illinois Indiansfrom the south, who excited his imagination to as greatan extent as the Christinos from the north had excitedthe imaginations of Grosseilliers and Radisson, and witha correspondingly momentous result. When the Illi-nois come to La Pointe, says Marquette, they pass agreat river almost a league in breadth. It flows fromnorth to south, and so far that the Illinois, who knownot the use of the canoe, have never so much as heardof the mouth. An Illinois youth who acted as in-structor in language to Marquette told the priest thathe had seen Indians from the south who were loadeddown with glass beads, thus proving that they hadtrafficked with the whites. That the great river emptieditself in Virginia seemed to Marquette hardly proba-ble; he was inclined to believe that its mouth was inCalifornia. At any rate he was determined to securethe compan
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