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Banks, of which this Coaft is full, and which for the moll Part 

 are covered with Oyllers, About ten o'Clock we perceived a 

 fquare Fort of Stone, with pretty regular Battions ; we imme- 

 diately hoifted the white Flag, and a Moment after they called 

 out to us in French not to come any nearer. 



We ftopt, and in a Moment we faw a Pettiaugre coming to- 

 wards us, with three Men in it. One of the three was a Bif- 

 cayneer : He had been a Gunner in Louijtana, and he was in the 

 fame Employment at St, Mark, After the common Queilions, 

 the Bif cayneer was of Opinion, that only the Captain of the 

 Adour and I ftiould go to fpeak with the Commandant, which 

 we accordingly did. This Commandant was only a Deputy, 

 and a Man of Senfe : He made no Difficulty to let our Boat 

 come up to the Fort, and he invited our Officers and the prin- 

 cipal Paffengers to Dinner ; but it was after our Boat had 

 been vifited, and all the Arms and Ammunition taken out, 

 and carried to his own Magazine, with a Promife to reflore 

 them when we Ihould depart. 



This Poll, which M. Delille has fet down in his Chart under 

 T\ r ' ^ 1 the Name of 5*/. M^2r/> ^'^W^f^^, was always 

 De/cnptzonofthe ^^jj^^ ^^^^^^ Spaniards had for- 



merly a confiderable Settlement here, but 

 which was reduced to be of little Confequence, when in 1704 

 it was entirely deftroyed by the Englijh of Carolina^ accompa- 

 nied by a great Number of the Savages called Alihamons, The 

 Spanijh Garrifon, which confined of thirty-tv/o Men, was made 

 Prifoners of War; but the Savages burnt 17 of them, among 

 whom were three Francifcan Friars ; and of feven Thoufand 

 Apalachesy who were in this Canton, and v/ho had almoft all em- 

 braced Chrijiianity^ there remained at St, Mark but four hundred, 

 who withdrew towards the I^aubile, where the greatefl Part of 

 them are at prefent. 



The Foreâs and Meadows near the Fort are full of wild Cattle 

 and Horfes, which the Spaniards let run here, and as they want 

 them, they fend fome Savages, who take them with Snares. 

 Thefe Savages are alfo Apalaches^ who probably went away 

 when the Englijh took this Place, and who returned after they 

 were retired. For the reft, this Bay is exaélly what Garctlajfo 

 de la Vega, in his Hiftory of Florida, calls the Port of Ante, The 

 Fort is built on a little Eminence, furrounded by Marfhes, and 

 a little below the Confluence of two Rivers, one of which comes 

 from the North Eaft, and the other from the North Weft. They 

 are but fmall, and full of Caimans, and notwithftanding pretty 

 well ftored with Filh* 



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