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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt:... fugitives coming in confirmed the evil tidings." Id. p. 254-. Direction from Ste. Marie I. (Old Fort). With all its imperfections, the inset map of Ducreux is of incalculable worth as a guidance in identifying the Indian village sites. Without it a knowledge of their respective distances from Ste. Marie I' would be of little avail, seeing that we should still remain ignorant of the direction in which they lay. To restrict ourselves.to the case in hand, we see by the inset map that the bearings of St. Louis, with reference to the Old Fort, are a few points south of east, the very same bearing from the same landmark as east half lot 11 con. VI.; which lot also is all but 3 miles distant. The usual indications of its having been a village site were more strikingly observable at one time than at present. With such evidence before us, it is not too rash to conclude that east half lot 11, con. VI. is really the spot where the village of St. Louis once stood. The length of the Italian geographical mile was 1,852 metres. See, sub vocab., Dupiney de Vorepierre; Guerin, Diet, des Diet. torn. 5, and others. But other elements enter into the determining of the direction of St. Ignace II. fi'om St. Louis; for it must be remarked here that the St. Ignace of the inset map is certainly not St. Ignace II., in other words, not that of 1649, but rather St. Ignace I., occupying quite a different site previous to July, 1648. It would require too much space to give my reasons here for what seems a naked assertion; I hope to do so elsewhere. The distance, as we have seen, from St. Ignace II. to St. Louis was about one league. As to the direction, it may be positively asserted that St. Ignace II. did not lie on an absolutely straight line passing through St. Louis to Ste. Ma...