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the weather, and in the mean time waiting till a 

 plan is laid out for them, and till they have built 

 houfes according to it. M. de Pauger, whom I 

 have Or ill the honour to accompany, has juft mown 

 me a plan of his own invention y but it will not 

 be fo eafy to put it into execution, as it has been to 

 draw it out upon paper. We fet out on the 28th, 

 for Eiloxi, where the general quarters are. There 

 are no grants between New Orleans and the fea, 

 the foil being of too little depth but only fome 

 fmall. private fettlements and entrepots, or ftaples, 

 for the large grants. 



Behind one of thefe plantations, and immedi- 

 ately beiow the Englifh reach, flood, not long fmce, 

 a village of the Chouachas, the ruins of which I 

 have vifited. Nothing remains entire but the cab- 

 bin of the chief, which bears a great refemblance 

 to one of our peafants houfes in France, with this 

 difference only, that it has no windows. It is 

 built of the branches of trees, the voids of which 

 are filled up with the leaves of the trees called 

 lataniers, and its roof is of the fame materials. 

 The^ief, like all the reft in Florida, is very ab- 

 folute ; he hunts only for his pleafure, for his 

 fubje&s are obliged to give him part of j their 

 game. His village is at prefent on the other fide 

 of the river, half a league lower, and the Indians 

 have tranfported thither even the bones of their 

 dead. 



A little below their new habitation, the coaft is 

 much higher than any where elfe; and it feems 

 to me, this would have been the beft fituation for 

 a city. It is not above twenty leagues from the 

 fea, and with a moderate fouth or fouth-eaft wind, 

 fhips nrght get up to it in fifteen hours. On 



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