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themfelves the Error, in which they were engaged by^heir foo-^ 

 liih Credulity, they have difcharged their Spleen on the Coun- 

 try, where they have found nothing of what had been promifed 

 them. I am, kQ. 



LETTER XXXn. 



De/cription of the BiLOXi ; Of the Cassine, or Apalachine : 

 Of the Myrtle Wax : 0/Maubile : Of theTchnaas : Of the Bay 

 of St. Bernard. Voyage from BiLOxi to New Orleans '/^ 

 the Lakeof Pontch artr ain. 



Madam, On Board the A d o u r , Jpril 5 . 



^^jjT^HE 26th, after having clofed my Letter, I embarked, and 

 A we prepared to fail ; but after we had made one Ta!ck to 

 the South, the Wind coming againft us obliged us to return to 

 Arrival at Ei- Anchorage, and to remain there the two 

 2q^. following Days. The 29th we weighed An» 



chor early in the Morning, but the Wind 

 was fo weak, and the Sea ran fo high, that in twenty-four 

 Hours we made but fourteen Leagues, which was but half the 

 , Way we had to go. The 30th we had neither the Wind more 

 favourable, nor the Sea more calm till towards four in the Af- 

 ternoon, when a Shower of Rain cleared up the Weather, which 

 was very thick, and calmed the Sea : But after an Hour or two 

 the Mift returned, and became fo thick, that not being able to fee 

 how to fteer our VelTel, we came to an Anchbr. The next Day 

 as the Fog did not difperfe, M. de P anger and J went into the 

 Boat, to gain the Road of Ulfe aux Vaffeaux (Ship Ifland) ; we 

 vifited there Tome Ships of France ^ and we got back to Biloxi 

 about five in the Afternoon. 



À11 this Coaft is extremely flat ; Merchant Ships cannot come 

 T) r 'm' ffh nearer it than four Leagues, & the fmallell Bri- 

 Coafi and^of the S^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^w^- And even thefe are obliged 

 Road ^ further off v/hen the Wind is North or 



North-Weft, or elfe they find themfelves on 

 Ground ; as it happened the Night before I debarked. The 

 Road is the whole Length of Ship Ifland, which extends a fmall 

 League from E aft to Weft, but has very little Breadth. To the 

 Eaft of this Ifland is Dauphin Ifland, formerly CdlltàMaffacrelfandy 

 where there was a tolerable Port, which a Guft of Wind fliut up 

 in two Hours, a Httle more than a Year ago^ by filling the En- 

 trance 



