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the board of plantations. He qudlioncd 

 me on the prclenc ftate of Louifiana, I 

 afTured: the minifter that I had left in our 

 interefl ali the nations of that vaft con- 

 tinent, which I had vifited, and that the 

 Cherokees were come to treat of peace with 

 the French. He likewife afked me, whether 

 I thought the colony could be attacked. I an- 

 fwercd that there was little probability of the Eng- 

 lifli attempting to attack ir, on account of the 

 difliculty of cjming in through the mouth of 

 the Mijfjippi at the fort of Balifc \ and that 

 the colony wanted no other fortifications, than 

 thofe which nature had provided it with. 



M. de Moras obtained for ine from the 

 kino; a o-ratification of a thoufand livres in order 

 to enable me to go to the waters which my 

 health required I fhould take \ after which I re- 

 ceived an order from his majefty to go back to 

 Louif.ana^ and continue my fervices there-, 

 therefore I came hither without lofs of time 

 in order to embark •, we intend to fet fail aa 

 foon as the convoy will be fitted out for Cafe 

 Bretcn. 



M. Druis Imbuto fucceeds M. Normant de 



Mifi^ as Intendant of the marine. The king 



P 4 could 



