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told thofe who gave me this account, that an en* 

 raged wolf might very well have done all this, and' 

 that, as to its cry, people were deceived in thefe 

 matters every day. I could perfuade nobody, they 

 Hill would have it that it was fome monftrous beaih 

 It was heard again, and every one ran out armed 

 with what he could find, but it was to no pur- 

 pofe. 



The company's grant is (till more advantageouf- 

 ly fituated than that of the Maloins. The fame 

 river waters both, and falls into the Mifllffippi, two 

 leagues from this place ; a magnificent foreft of 

 cyprefs trees forms a barrier to it, and covers all 

 the back fettlements. 



I have feen in the garden of the Sieur le Noir, 

 the principal factor, a very fine cotton tree, and, 

 a little lower, we begin to find wild Indigo. A 

 trial of it has not yet been made, but there is rea- 

 fon to believe that it will fucceed as well as that 

 which was found on the ifland of Sc. Domingo, 

 where it is as much efteemeu as the Indigo rranf- 

 ported from foreign parts. Befides, experience 

 informs us that a foil w hich produces this plant 

 naturally is very well adapted to receive iortign 

 feed. 



The great village of the Natchez is at prefent 

 reduced to a fmall number of cabbins ; the reafon 

 of which, I am told, is, that the Indians, whofe 

 great chief has a right to take every thing from 

 them, remove to as great a diftance from him as 

 they poftibly can, by which means feveral villages 

 of thefe people have been formed at fome diftance 

 from this* The Tious, their allies and ours, have 

 one likewife in their neighbourhood. 



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