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  HISTORICAL 
  OUTLINE. 
  

  

  formed 
  sand 
  rock 
  is 
  seen 
  ; 
  hence 
  the 
  place 
  became 
  known 
  

   to 
  the 
  French 
  as 
  " 
  La 
  Roche 
  a 
  Davion," 
  (Davion's 
  Eock.) 
  

   It 
  is 
  the 
  point 
  now 
  known 
  as 
  Fort 
  Adams, 
  and 
  the 
  same 
  

   called 
  by 
  the 
  English, 
  Loftus 
  Heights. 
  

  

  Bienville, 
  who 
  engaged 
  actively 
  in 
  exploring 
  the 
  passes 
  

   and 
  outlets 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  encountered 
  an 
  English 
  

   ship 
  in 
  the 
  river, 
  commanded 
  b}^ 
  Captain 
  Bar, 
  one 
  of 
  two 
  

   vessels 
  sent 
  out 
  by 
  Daniel 
  Cox 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  to 
  take 
  

   possession 
  of 
  a 
  grant 
  of 
  land 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  then 
  the 
  

   proprietor, 
  made 
  by 
  Charles 
  the 
  First 
  of 
  England, 
  in 
  1630, 
  

   to 
  Sir 
  Robert 
  Heath. 
  It 
  comprised 
  a 
  tract 
  of 
  truly 
  royal 
  

   dimensions, 
  embracing 
  not 
  only 
  the 
  present 
  State 
  of 
  Mis- 
  

   sissippi, 
  but 
  included 
  several 
  other 
  adjoining 
  States. 
  

   Captain 
  Bar, 
  doubting 
  whether 
  the 
  stream 
  he 
  had 
  entered 
  

   was 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  was 
  easily 
  induced 
  by 
  Bienville 
  to 
  

   retrace 
  his 
  steps 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  great 
  bend 
  in 
  the 
  river, 
  at 
  

   which 
  his 
  progress 
  was 
  terminated, 
  has 
  ever 
  since 
  been 
  

   known 
  from 
  this 
  circumstance 
  as 
  the 
  "English 
  Turn." 
  

  

  In 
  December, 
  Iberville 
  returned 
  from 
  France 
  with 
  two 
  

   large 
  armed 
  ships. 
  He 
  brought 
  out 
  Leseur, 
  a 
  Oeologist, 
  

   ivlio 
  was 
  sent 
  hy 
  the 
  French 
  government 
  to 
  examine 
  a 
  green- 
  

   ish 
  earth 
  or 
  ochre 
  ivhich 
  had 
  been 
  noticed 
  on 
  the 
  banhs 
  of 
  

   the 
  Mississippi.^ 
  Furnished 
  with 
  a 
  detachment 
  of 
  twenty 
  

   men, 
  Leseur 
  proceeded 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  River 
  St. 
  Peter's, 
  which 
  

   he 
  ascended 
  a 
  considerable 
  distance. 
  A 
  greenish 
  ochre 
  

   was 
  found 
  covering 
  the 
  ground 
  near 
  a 
  copper-mine, 
  thir- 
  

   teen 
  thousand 
  pounds 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  gathered, 
  brought 
  

   to 
  Baluxi 
  and 
  shipped 
  to 
  France 
  ; 
  but 
  no 
  further 
  notice 
  

   appears 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  taken 
  of 
  it. 
  

  

  In 
  1700, 
  the 
  Chevalier 
  de 
  Tonti, 
  hearing 
  of 
  the 
  esta- 
  

   blishment 
  of 
  the 
  French 
  colony, 
  descended 
  the 
  river 
  in 
  a 
  

  

  * 
  This 
  geological 
  surveying 
  expedition, 
  fitted 
  out 
  within 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  

   our 
  State, 
  was 
  probably 
  the 
  earliest 
  undertaken 
  on 
  our 
  continent. 
  

  

  