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with civility, entreating me to refide with him; but 
being impatient to get to the river, and pleading 
the neceffity of profecuting my travels with alacrity, 
on account of the feafon being fo far advanced, I 
was permitted to proceed, and*fet off next morn- 
ing. Still afcending the Arnite about twenty miles 
farther, arrived at the forks, where the Iberville 
comes in on the left hand, afcending which a little 
way, we foon came to the landing, where are ware - 
houfes fordepofiting merchandize, this being die ex- 
tremity of navigation up this canal, and here fmall 
veffiels load and unload. From this place to Man- 
chac, on the banks of the Miffiffipi, juft above the 
mouth of the canal, is nine miles by land ; the 
road ftraight, fpacious, and perfectly level, under the 
ffiadow of a grand foreft ; the trees of the firft order 
in magnitude and beauty, as Magnolia grandi- 
flora, Liriodendron tulipifera, Piataniis, Juglans 
nigra, Fraxinus excelfior, Morus rubra, Laurus 
faffafras, Laurus Borbonia, Tilea, Liquidambar 
ftyraciflua, &c. 
At evening arrived at Mancha c, 'when I direhted 
my fteps to the banks of the Miffiffipi, where I flood 
for a time as it v/ere fafcinated by the magnificence 
of the great fire* of rivers® 
The depth of the river here, even in this feafon, 
at its lowed: ebb, is aftoniffiing, not Ids than forty 
fathoms; and the width about a mile or fo me what 
kfs : but it is not expanfion of furface alone that 
Unices us with ideas of magnificence ; the altitude 
^ and theatrical afcents of its penfile banks, the flea- 
dv courfe of the mighty flood, the trees, high fo- 
refts, even every particular objehl, as well as lode- 
f Which is the meaning of the word Miffiffipi, 
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