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later we fhould have been hard put to it, the wind 

 changing fuddenly from north-eaft to fouth-weft, 

 and the fea rifing fo high at the fame inftant, that 

 it had been impoffible tor us to ride it out. 



On the firft of June, towards two or three in 

 the morning, the tide beginning to flow we reim- 

 barked, and after advancing a mort league, en- 

 tered the channel of St. Rofe, which is fourteen 

 leagues in length. It is formed by the ifland of 

 St. Rofe which is of this length, but very narrow, 

 appearing to be covered with fand, but for all that 

 not ill wooded: the continent is very high, and 

 bears trees of all forts: the foil is almoft as fandy 

 as at St. Mark, but on digging even fo mort a 

 way into the ground, you meet with water. The 

 wood here is very hard, but eafily rots. All this 

 co all fwarms with game, and the fea with Mm. 

 The channel is narrow at the mouth, but grows 

 broader afterwards, and retains as far as the Bay 

 of Penfacola half a league of breadth ; the cur- 

 rent here was very ftrong, but favourable for us. 



Towards eleven o'clock, we doubled the Pointe 

 aux Chevreuih) or Roebuck point, beyond which 

 the bay begins. Here you turn firft to the north, 

 and afterwards to the north-eaft. The fort ftands 

 a mort league farther, and you difcover it from the 

 point aux Chevreuils. We arrived here at noon, 

 and were much furprifed to fee it in fo bad a con- 

 dition, and it appears to be pretty much neglected. 

 The Sieur Carpeau de Montigni who commands in 

 it, was gone to Biloxi, and we only found a few 

 foldiers in it. The Spanilli fort which was taken 

 two years ago by the Count de Champmelin, was 

 behind this, and there remains nothing of it but a 

 very fine ciftern, which is faid to have coft four- 

 teen- 



