hierocoyes

Updated: May 8, 2025

In an old English map, prefixed to the rare tract, A Treatise of New England, the "Lake of Hierocoyes" is laid down. The name "Horicon," as used by Cooper in his Last of the Mohicans, seems to have no sufficient historical foundation. In 1646, the lake, as we shall see, was named "Lac St.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century