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five or six miles of the line of demarkatiou, just! 

 below which the great bend first commenced.! 

 The distance across the land is only five miles,! 

 called the Short Cut ; but following the course oil 

 the river is fifty miles. Here the bend still con- 1 

 tinues, turning to the eastward and southward,! 

 until it comes within one mile and a half of the J 

 river in its course to the northward ; nearly! 

 completing a circle of about thirty miles in cir-l 

 eumference. The last of these bends is called! 

 Tunica Bend, at the extremity of which is Tuni-1 

 ca village, a handsome settlement, extending! 

 about twelve miles along the east side of the! 

 river. 



Point Coupee is about fifteen miles below Tu-J 

 nica village, on the western side,, where there was] 

 formerly a bend, nearly resembling Tunica Bend,! 

 but of smaller size. Here the river, after making! 

 a circuit of about twenty miles, returned almost 

 into its own stream. A channel, some years ago, ; 

 was cut across, and. by the washing of the current, 

 the river is become as deep and broad as it isi 

 above and below, by which a saving is made of: 

 about twenty miles in the distance. The old bend: 

 is called Fausse Riviere. 



Point Coupee is a rich and populous settlement,! 

 extending about twenty miles on the river. The. 

 land is laid out in beautiful cotton plantations,: 

 producing great crops. Here commences ■ thei 

 embankment or Levee, on the western side of the; 

 river, which is continued to Orleans, a distance: 



