APPENDIX. 
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Correctly to appreciate the advantages of the situation ol 
M'adisonvilie, its terraqueous vicinity must be understood. The 
land east and west from this place along the borders of the lake 
is a sandy flat, extending from five to twenty miles from their 
shores, and nearly as level as the still ocean which seems to 
have receded from it: this fbat coast is the termination of the in— 
elided plain, with a southern exposure, extending from near the 
Mississippi to Pearl river, and from about lat. 31, 30, N. to the 
lakes: it is pleasantly diversified with pine covered plains and 
ridges, which alternate with rich low grounds or intervals, from 
half aTnile to two miles in breadth, on all the numerous streams 
which* dissect it. The largest and most westwardly of these 
streams is the Amite river, which interlocks its western branch¬ 
es with 1 the waters of the Homochitto, Bayou Sarah, and Thomp¬ 
son’s 1 creek, which is the last considerable creek that feeds the 
Mississippi from the east. The Amite receives at Galvastown 
the Bayou Manchaique, an outlet in time of high water from the 
Mississippi, add loses its name in a round lake called Maure- 
pas, which is about nine miles in diameter. The next stream 
eastward is the Tiefau, which has its source a few miles north 
of the old Spanish line in lat. 31 ; like tne Amite, it inclines to 
the east of south in its course, and, after receiving its main 
branch, the Talbany, and its minor branch the Ponchartoula, 
both from the east, it also empties into lake Maurepas. The 
Waters of lake Maurepas enter by a straight called the pass of 
Manchaique into lake Ponchartrain, which lies between the san¬ 
dy coast of the continent and the river made island of Orleans. 
Tanchipohee creek rises several miles further north than the 
Tiefau, and interlocks with the eastern branch of the Amite; in 
its course, which is nearly south, it receives numerous small 
streams, and mouths into lake Ponchartrain, three miles east of 
Manchaique Pass : a bar at its mouth obstructs its navigation. 
The Tchefoata and Bouge Falia have their uttermost springs 
near together about twelve miles south of lat. 31; their courses 
are nearly parallel till they unite about three miles ft. eastward 
from Madisonville. Bouge Falia receives from the east, little 
Bouge Falia, on the south bank of which is an elegant range of 
barracks and officers’ houses, sufficient for a regiment of men. 
