3 3 ^^'^ Hijlorical Journal of 



M. Paiiger and I pafTed the rcfl of the Day with the Vilot 

 Of the principal f^^f^/ who commanded the Brigan tine, in 

 Mouth of the Mif- fr'^D -"^ ^""i^^- f ^(^^^^""g only Mouth of 

 fiffippi ' ^^^^ which IS navigable ; and thefe are 



* exaélly our Obfervations on the State in which 



we found it, for I do not anfwer for the Changes which may 

 happen in it. It runs North Weft and South Eaft the Space of 

 three hundred Fathom, in going up from the open Sea quite to 

 the Ifland of Touloufe, over-againft which there are three little 

 Mands, which have yet nothing growing on them, though they 

 are pretty high. In all this Interval, its Breadth is two hun» 

 dred and fifty Fathom, its Depth is eighteen Feet in the Mid- 

 dle, the Bottom foft Oofe : But we muft navigate here with the 

 Sounding-Line in Hand, when we are not ufed to the Channel. 



From hence going upwards, we make ftill the North Weft for 

 four hundred Fathom, at the End of which there is ftill fifteen 

 Feet Water, the fame Bottom ; and it is to be obferved that 

 every where the Anchorage is fafe, and that we are fheltered 

 from all the Vv^inds but the South and the South Eaft, which 

 may, when they are violent, make the Ships drive with their 

 Anchors, but without Danger, becaufe they would run on the 

 Bar, which is a foft Oofe : Then we make the North Weft 

 by North Eaft for five hundred Fathom. This is properly the 

 Bar, twelve Feet Water, mean Depth ; we muft alfo work here 

 with great Attention, for we meet with many Banks : This Bar 

 is two hundred and fifty Fathom wide between low Lands that 

 are covered with P^eeds. 



In the Pafs of the Eaf, which is immediately above, we 

 ^^j^ ^ p ^ make full Weft for a League : It is two hun- 

 tûer ql^es, ^^^^ ^^^^ Fathom wide, and from four to 

 fifteen Feet in Depth. Then all at once we find no Bottom. la 

 taking again the great Pafs at coming oft^ the Bar, we make 

 again the North Weft the Space of three hundred Fathom, and 

 we have always here 45 Feet Water. We leave on the Right 

 the Pafs of Sau^jole, by which Boats may go to Biloxi, making 

 the North : This Place took its Name from an Oflicer, whom 

 M. Iher-ville made Commandant in the Colony upon his Re- 

 turn to France, 



Then we muft return to the Weft and by North Weft for Mty 

 Fathom, and in a Kind of Bay, which we leave on the Left ; at 

 the End of this Space there are three PalTes, one to the South 

 South Eaft, another to the South, and a third to the Weft 

 South Weft. This Bay is notwithftanding only ten Fathom deep, 

 and twenty wide ; but thefc PaiTes have little Water. We con- 

 tinue to follow the fame Rhumb of the V/ind, and at fifty Fa- 

 thom farther there is on the fame Hand a fécond Bay, which is 

 twenty Fathom, wide, and fifty deep. It contains two little PaiTes, 



which 



