AUDUBON JOURNAL 



our Boat Roof the Magnolia & Pines that ornement 

 the Hills above this Place — 



I Wrote a Long Letter to My Lucy with Hopes that 

 it would be in time for the Mail of Tomorrow — 



Our Commanders and M'' Shaw found every article 

 of Produce Low, perhaps too Low to resound them- 

 selves — 



I found the Stomack of the Great footed Hawk filled 

 With Bones, feathers, and the Gizzard of a Teal, also 

 the Eyes of a Fish and Many Scales — it was a femelle 

 Egg numerous and 4 of them the size of Green Peas — 



As we approach Natchez I [saw] remarked in sev- 

 eral places — Saw Mills, placed over ditches cut from 

 the River and running to the Swamps which in time 

 of floods afford a Good Current — these ditches also 

 serve to furnish the Mills with timbers floated through 

 them from the Interior = 



We have also seen very Large Rafts of Long Logs 

 Intended for M'" Livingston's Warf at New Orleans 

 — a Rafter assured us of having rec^ 6000S for the 

 Last Parcel he stole rom the Government's Land — 



Wednesday Decemb'^ 27*^ 1820 



As soon as my drawing was finished, I cleaned and 

 Went to Natchez properly speaking — there to my utt- 

 most surprise I met Nicholas Berthoud, who accosted 

 Me Kindly, and ask'^ me to go to New Orleans in his 

 Boat — I accepted his offer — 



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