| Title: | Ohio, the |
| Original Title: | Ohio, L' |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 11 (1765), p. 429 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Gena Chattin [Catholic University] |
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Geography
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Ohio, the." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Gena Chattin. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2012. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.633>. Trans. of "Ohio, L'," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 11. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Ohio, the." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Gena Chattin. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.633 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Ohio, L'," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 11:429 (Paris, 1765). |
Large Northern American river in New France. It was named thus by the Iroquois, and it is said that this name indicates its beauty. It has sources to the east of Lake Erie, runs through Les Tongoria [1], and has as a tributary another river named the Wabash or the Saint Jerome . Finally widened again by the Tennessee River, it empties into the Mississippi in the land named Louisiana by the French. But, regarding the course of that river, one must consult the map of Northern America published in London in 1745 by Dr. Mitchel, F.R.S. [2]
Notes
1. Villages on the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers, possibly the French equivalent for Erigek or even a remnant of the Eries according to G. Fowke’s Archaeological History of Ohio: The Mound Builders and Later Indians (1902, p. 429).
2. Appears to be Dr. John Mitchel, F.R.S., who is mentioned for North American mapmaking in A.J. Morrison’s “The Ohio Prospectus for the Year 1775” in Ohio History volume 23, page 237.