http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0222830
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
contributor: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687
contributor: Tonti, Henri de, -1704
creator: Falconer, Thomas, 1805-1882
issued: 2015-10-21
issued: 1844
description: "Errata for pt.I , leaf following t.p.; for pt.2, on verso of p.99. A closely argued investigation of the respective rights of the United States and Great Britain to the ownership of the disputed Oregon territory, based on documents in the Archive Maritime at Paris. Concludes Britain has the greater rights, based on the territorial acquisition of French explorers which reverted to Great Britain on the cession of New France." -- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 88.
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extent: 96, 99 pages : map (folded) ; 20 cm
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identifier: F352 .F18
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language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: London : Samuel Clarke
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subject: Mississippi River--Discovery and exploration
subject: United States--Boundaries--Canada
subject: Texas--History--To 1846
title: On the discovery of the Mississippi, and on the south-western, Oregon, and north-western boundary of the United States. With a translation from the original ms. of memoirs, etc. relating to the discovery of the Mississippi, by Robert Cavelier de la Salle and the Chevalier Henry de Tonty
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