120 TRAVELS THROUGH 





LETTER XIV. 



To the fame. 



The Author departs from New Orleans for the 

 Allibamons. His Navigation on the Lake Pont- 

 chartrain. Short Defcriplon of Mobile. 



S I R, 



??$^^ Left New Orleans on the fourteenth of 

 ^ I ^ December, according to M. de Kerle- 

 i^^^iiJ r^^*s orders, and fet out for the Jill- 

 bamons, I failed from the little creek of St. Jean^ 

 which is fituated in the lake Pont char train. 

 There is a portage of about a quarter of a mile 

 from New Orleans to- this creek *, which is about 

 two leagues long ; the winds were favourable to 

 us, and on the twentieth of December 1 arrived 



at 



* Bayoucy a fmall inlet where the tide goes up. 



