NORTH AMERICA. 
rny mind, I ftibmitted, and determined to return 
to Carolina, 
Receiving information that the company’s 
fchooner was ready to fail for Mobile, I embarked 
on board a trading boat for ManchaC, where ar- 
riving in the evening, I took leave next morning 
of Meflrs. Swanfon and Co. and fet off for the 
forks of the Amite, and next day fat fail, de- 
fending the tardy current of the Amite. Ob- 
ferving two bears eroding the river a-head, 
though our pieces were ready charged, and the 
yawl along fide to receive us, we purified them in 
Vain, they fwam fwiftly acrofs, and efcaped in 
the forefts oil the iiland of Orleans. The breeze 
dying away at evening, we came to anchor, and 
had variety of amufements at billing and fowling. 
Next day, November 13th, 177,7, with a beady 
leading breeze, entered and failed over the lake 
Maurepas, and through the {freights into the 
Pontchartrain, and continued under fail ; but at 
midnight, by keeping too near the Weft fhore, 
we ran aground oil a farid-bar, where we lay 
beating the hard fandy bottom until mornings 
and our yawl parting from us in the night, which 
we never recovered, we were left to the mercy of 
the winds and floods ; but before noon the wind 
coming brifldy from North-Eaff, driving the fea 
into the lake, we got off, made fail again, and 
before night paffed through the RegtiHets, en- 
tering the ocean through the bay of Pearls, fail- 
ing through the found betwixt Cat iiland and the 
ftrand of the continent ; palling by the beautiful 
bay St. Louis, into which defeend many delight- 
ful rivers, which flow from the lower or maritime 
fettlements of the Chadtaws or Flatheads* Con- 
tinuing through the found between the oyfter 
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