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How was Louis Jolliet rewarded for his discovery of the Upper Mississippi River?

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Jolliet was rewarded with the gift of Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which was, however, seized by the British while Jolliet was absent on explorations in Labrador and around Hudson Bay.

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