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1680 “Fort Crêvecoeur on the Illinois River, about 150 miles from the Mississippi, is built by the Sieur La Salle, who arrived at that place with a party amounting only to thirty-two men. Father Leuis Hennepin, a Franciscan Friar, one of LaSalle’s party, arrived at the Mississippi on the 8th of March, and explored that portion of it situated above the mouth of the Illinois”. Linsr Chr: 85