Excerpt from Lahontan's New Voyages to North-America, Vol. 1 About the middle of the seventeenth century, Lahontan was erected into a barony, Of which Isaac de Lom, Sieur d'arce, the father Of our author, was the second baron. The Lahontan', Sieur d'arce was famous as a civil engineer, having the made the port Of Bayonne navigable for sea-going vessels (1630 As a recompense for this and certain military services, Louis XIV granted to him and his heirs for ever (1658) a monopoly Of navigation and transportation in the ...
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Excerpt from Lahontan's New Voyages to North-America, Vol. 1 About the middle of the seventeenth century, Lahontan was erected into a barony, Of which Isaac de Lom, Sieur d'arce, the father Of our author, was the second baron. The Lahontan', Sieur d'arce was famous as a civil engineer, having the made the port Of Bayonne navigable for sea-going vessels (1630 As a recompense for this and certain military services, Louis XIV granted to him and his heirs for ever (1658) a monopoly Of navigation and transportation in the harbor Of Bayonne, and a pension Of three thousand livres per annum for a dozen years; in later years, he was made reformer-general Of Bearn, a councillor Of the parlement Of Navarre, a chevalier Of St. Michel, and a bourgeois Of Bayonne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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