260              Life of Father Jogues.
Marquette explored the Mississippi River, and who was one of the best and most accurate hydrographers of his time, as his many maps show, left one on which Osser-nenon is shown in the angle between the Mohawk and Schoharie rivers, where Auriesville railway-station now is.
2.  Father Jogues, in his account of the captivity and journey of himself and Ren6 Goupil to the villages in 1642, says: "We arrived at a small river distant about a quarter of a league from the first Iroquois village" (Relation 1647, p. 22).    A quarter of a French league was considerably less than three quarters of a mile; the same distance is given in the MS. of 1652, taken from the lips of Father Jogues himself by his Superior, Father Buteux).    In the account as given by Bressani, who had been a captive in the same place, the words are: "On the Eve of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, about three o'clock, we reached a river which flows by their first village; . . . both banks were filled with Iroquois, who received us with clubs, sticks, and stones.   They then led us to their village on the top of the hill."    The MS. of 1652 says: "On the other side of this river were many  Iroquois who were waiting for the  prisoners." This locates the village south of the Mohawk, on a hill a quarter of a league distant from the river.
3.  In his account of the death of Ren6, Father Jogues says: " They told me that the body had been dragged to a river a quarter of a league distant, with which I was not acquainted."   This can only apply to the Schoharie, as the Mohawk was in plain view of the village, and Father Jogues must certainly have been thoroughly well acquainted with it at this time; whereas the Schoharie was separated from the village by the hills and woods between.    The village then must have been on a hill at a point  between  the  Mohawk and Schoharie rivers, about a quarter of a league distant from each. At this exact point, on the hill near Auriesville Station,