AUDUBON JOURNAL 



the current ran swift forming an eddy below, he had 

 taken several tolerably Large Cat Fishes — 



Tuesday January 2*^ 1821 



We floated all night without accidents, the river 

 since Natchez is much deeper, and free of Sawers and 

 Snaggs — at day breake found ourselves about 50 Miles 

 below Baton Rouge; the day Cloudy, raw, and some 

 Wind a head — 



the Plantations increase in number, and the Shores 

 have Much the Appearance of those on Some of the 

 Large rivers of France, their Lowness Excepted, the 

 points are quite diferent to those on the River above, 

 One May see the River below them by Looking across 

 in Many places — and from the Boat we can only have 

 a View of the upper windows, Roofs and Tops of the 

 Trees about them, the Whole is backed by a dark 

 Curtain of Thickly Moss covered Cypresses — flat 

 Boats are Landed at nearly every Plantation, this 

 being a Sure method of disposing of their produce to 

 a better profit, travellers on horse Back or Gigg go by 

 us full Gallop as if their Life depended on the accel- 

 erity of their movements — I have Seen More Com- 

 mon Crows since Natchez than I ever saw in My 

 Whole Life before, the Shores and Trees are Covered 

 with them but yet very few fish Crows have been 

 Seen — saw some Pelicans, Many Gulls, Buzzards & 

 C. Crows — 



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