226 TRAVELS through 





LETTER XV. 



T'o the fame* 



ne Author fets out from Mobile for the Alliba- 

 mons. Defcrlption of the Manners of this Na- 

 tion. 'Their Way of punijhing Adultery, 



S I R, 



??)J(^:?? AM at lall arrived at Fort I'ouhufe 

 ^ I Q among the AUihamons, I have been 

 ??)S()Ki^ fifty days a-coming ; becafffe, taking 

 boat in the rainy leafon, the water in the river 

 was often fwelled to twelve or fifteen feet > this 

 fudden increafe was caufcd by the Heavy rains, 

 which are frequent hereabouts, and by the high 

 hills that run along this river. 



We have been obliged to work hard agalnft 

 the rapidity of the current, and there were 

 days during which we fcarcely advanced a 



league. 



