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English: Detail from a map entitled "Partie occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada", published in 1755, that shows the “Portage des Chenes” (the portage of oak trees), that later became known as the Chicago Portage.
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Source https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3310.ar001900/?r=-0.373,-0.012,1.749,0.868,0
Author Jacques Nicolas Bellin

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