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LETTER XXXIV. 



Voyage to the Gulf of Bahama. Shipwreck of 

 the Adour. Return to Louifiana, along the 

 Coa/l of Florida. Defcription of that Coqft. 



Biloxi, June 5, 1722. 



Madam, 



IPromifed to write to you fhortly from St. Do- 

 mingo. Behold me, after two months have paf- 

 fed, as far from it as I then was. The account of 

 the fad adventure, which has brought me back to 

 this colony, and which has but too truly fulfilled 

 what I forefaw, with a few obfervations on a coun- 

 try which I had thoughts of vifiting, will form the 

 fubftance of this letter. I am not, however, in 

 other refpe£ts fo much to be pitied as you may im- 

 agine. I am fully recovered of my fatigues ; I 

 have run great hazards, but have been happily de- 

 livered from them: the paft misfortune is like a 

 dream, and often like a very agreeable one. 



About half an hour at moft, before I had 

 clofed my laft, the wind coming about to the 



North 



