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  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Louisiana 
  [Sect. 
  

  

  river 
  above 
  the 
  river 
  of 
  the 
  Natchitocks 
  live 
  the 
  "Arkansas, 
  a» 
  

   mighty 
  nation." 
  

  

  Bartrain.'^ 
  — 
  In 
  1773 
  Wm. 
  Bartram 
  started 
  on 
  his 
  journey 
  of 
  

   the 
  Southern 
  States 
  " 
  for 
  the 
  discover}^ 
  of 
  rare 
  and 
  useful 
  pro- 
  

   ductions 
  of 
  nature, 
  chiefly 
  in 
  the 
  vegetable 
  kingdom." 
  

  

  He 
  passed 
  through 
  Lake 
  Pontchartrain 
  and 
  ascended 
  the 
  Mis- 
  

   sissippi 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  Point 
  Coupe. 
  The 
  plainsf 
  near 
  Port 
  Hudson 
  

   he 
  described 
  as 
  showing 
  " 
  whitish 
  clay 
  or 
  chalk, 
  with 
  veins 
  of 
  

   sea-shells, 
  chiefly 
  of 
  those 
  little 
  clams 
  called 
  les 
  coquelles 
  \^Ran- 
  

   gia\ 
  interspersed 
  with 
  the 
  white 
  earth 
  or 
  clay, 
  so 
  tenaceous 
  and 
  

   hard 
  as 
  to 
  render 
  it 
  quite 
  sterile." 
  

  

  He 
  described 
  the 
  Port 
  HudsonJ 
  bluff 
  as 
  consisting 
  of 
  strata 
  

   of 
  various 
  colors, 
  white, 
  red, 
  blue, 
  purple 
  sand, 
  marl 
  and 
  chalk. 
  

   He 
  observed 
  the 
  cypress 
  stump 
  stratum 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  cliff, 
  

   and 
  comments 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  follows: 
  "These 
  stumps 
  are 
  

   sound, 
  stand 
  upright, 
  and 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  rotted 
  off 
  about 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  

   feet 
  above 
  the 
  spread 
  of 
  the 
  roots 
  ; 
  their 
  trunks, 
  limbs, 
  etc., 
  lie 
  

   in 
  all 
  directions 
  about 
  them. 
  But 
  when 
  these 
  swampy 
  forests 
  

   were 
  growing, 
  and 
  by 
  what 
  cause 
  they 
  were 
  cut 
  off 
  and 
  over- 
  

   whelmed 
  by 
  the 
  various 
  strata 
  of 
  earth, 
  which 
  now 
  rise 
  near 
  one 
  

   hundred 
  feet 
  above, 
  at 
  the 
  brink 
  of 
  the 
  cliff, 
  and 
  two 
  or 
  thtee 
  

   times 
  that 
  height 
  but 
  a 
  few 
  hundred 
  yards 
  back, 
  is 
  a 
  phenom- 
  

   enon 
  not 
  easily 
  developed." 
  

  

  Dunbar. 
  — 
  In 
  1801 
  Wm. 
  Dunbar, 
  of 
  Natchez, 
  sent 
  a 
  letter 
  to 
  the 
  

   president 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  extracts 
  of 
  

   which 
  were 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Transactions 
  for 
  that 
  year 
  (vol. 
  vi, 
  

  

  of 
  fresh 
  water 
  and 
  the 
  parts 
  adjacent. 
  Together 
  with 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  

   commodities 
  of 
  the 
  growth 
  and 
  production 
  of 
  the 
  said 
  province. 
  And 
  a 
  

   preface 
  containing 
  some 
  considerations 
  of 
  the 
  consequences 
  of 
  the 
  French 
  

   making 
  settlements 
  there. 
  By 
  Daniel 
  Coxe. 
  Second 
  edition. 
  London 
  

   1726. 
  See 
  pp. 
  lo-ii. 
  

  

  *Travels 
  through 
  North 
  and 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  Georgia, 
  east 
  and 
  west 
  

   Florida, 
  the 
  Cherokee 
  country, 
  the 
  extensive 
  territories 
  of 
  the 
  Musco- 
  

   gulges, 
  or 
  Creek 
  Confederacy, 
  and 
  the 
  country 
  of 
  the 
  Choctaws 
  ; 
  contain- 
  

   ing 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  soil 
  and 
  natural 
  productions 
  of 
  those 
  regions, 
  together 
  

   with 
  observations 
  on 
  the 
  manners 
  of 
  the 
  Indians 
  Embellished 
  with 
  cop- 
  

   per 
  plates. 
  B3' 
  Wm. 
  Bartram, 
  Phila., 
  1791. 
  

  

  tibid. 
  p. 
  431- 
  

  

  tibid. 
  p. 
  435. 
  

  

  