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Fifteen leagues above the Oimas^ In going up 

 the river, you arrive at the Qa pGint. This 

 place is about forty leagues diftant from New 

 Orleans. The foil of it is very fertile, and co- 

 vered with fruit-trees. There are a number of 

 Frenchmen in this part of the country, who ap- 

 ply themfelves to the culture of tobacco, cotton, 

 irice, maize, and other corn \ the colon ills like- 

 wife trade in building-timber, which they carry 

 down the river to New Orleans upon rafts. 



Upon the left jfhorc of the river, a little above 

 the Cut-pointy you fee the village of the Tonikas, 

 an Indian nation who have ever been attached 

 to the French. Their chiefs have always exert- 

 ed themfelves to be our allies in war; the lad 

 of them, who was very brave, received- a dan- 

 gerous wound in an expedition againfk the Nat- 

 ekes : the King, on receiving an account of this 

 affair, honoured him with a commifllon, as bri-^ 

 gadier of the armies of red men ; and further 

 prefented him with a blue ribbon, fom which 

 hung a filver medal, with a reprcfentation of 

 F^ns : he likcwife received a gold^headed cane. 



After the mr.fficre of the French by the 

 Natches^ whereof I intend to 'give you an ac- 

 count in its place, a part of that nation pretend- 

 ed- to be defirous of making peace with the 

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