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LET T E R XXIX. 



Madam, 



M Y lad letter is now gone for Canada, whence 

 XV A I a ™ allured it will foon be forwarded for 

 France, by the way of Cape Breton. Befides, 

 fhould it mifcarry by the way, the lofs would not 

 be very great : I begin this letter likewife at Kaf- 

 kafquias, but, in all probability, fhall not finifh it 

 here, having been above a month in this place, 

 and now hafiening my departure as faft as 

 poflible. 



As I have feen nothing of Louifiana as yet, ex- 

 cept this poft, being the firft of them all with re- 

 fpedfc to antiquity I cannot form any judgement 

 of it, by comparing it with the reft. What feems 

 certain to me is, that this has z double advantage, 

 one of which can never be difputed, and the other, 

 at leaft at prefent renders it necefiary to the whole 



Kajkafquias, November 8, 1721. 



province. 



