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aAually like a lancet. It is impoflible to finifh 

 this matter, it would require whole volumes ; I 

 leave this detail to our learned countrymen, M. 

 de Buffon and Daubenton^ who have undertaken 

 this vaft work. I wilh you may be content with 

 this fhort account. 



I am, S I R, &c. 



At New Orleans the ijl 

 of June y 1762. 



P. S, Before I conclude my letter I fhall 

 fpeak to you of two precious plants in 

 Louifianai which are the Indigo and the 

 Cotton. 



Indigo is a plant refembiing the Brootn or Ge- 

 fiifta very much. A kind of it is growing in 

 Louifiana fpontaneoufly, and commonly upon 

 hills and near woods. That which is cultivated 

 is brought from the Weft India iQes. There 

 are two crops of it every year. It grows to the 

 height of two feet and a half When it is ripe, 

 it is cut, and brought into the place where it is 

 to rot j this is a building twenty feet high, 

 without walls ; but only fupported by polis. 

 In it they make three troughs, one above an- 

 B b 4 other 



