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Show 120 out a place, plaine, without trees, which \vee perceived from the creckc.'' But tllil! spot, upon examination, docs not prOYC commodious, nnd it was determined to return to a poiut they had b-.forc discovered when sai!in:; up the ri\'er. '' 1'l1is place is joyning to a mountaine (hill), and it seemed unto us more fit and comu10Uious to build a fortrcssc ; . . th erefore we took our way to,orards the forests. .. Afterwards, we found u large plain ~, covered with lligh pine trees, distant n. little from thc other; und,r which we pcrc:;ived an infinite number of stagges, which brayed amidst thc plaine, athwart the wl1ich we passed : then we discovered a little hill adjoyning unto a great vale, very greene nud in forme flat: wherein were the fairest meadows of tho worldc, and grassc to fccdc cattcl. l\Iorcovcr, it ·is cnv ironcd with a great number of brookcs of fresh water, and high woodes which make the vale most delectable to the eye." Laudonnicre names this pleasant region after himself, the "vale of Loudo·nniue." 'J'hey pass through it, and, at length, nfter temporary exhaustion from fatigue and heat, they recover their spirits, and, penetrating a high wood, reach the brink or the river, and the spot which they have chosen for tho settlement. ·we have preferred, at the riHk of being ted ious, to quote these details, iu order that the modem antiquarian may, if he pleases, seek for the traces of this ancient setllement. 1'hc foundation was not laid without due solemnity Laudonnierc remembers that his p"ople nrc Christians; and, at the break of day, on tho 30th June, 15C4, the trumpets were sounded, and our lluguenots were called to prn.ycr. The banks of the May, otherwise the St. Jolms,• then •" The evidencf'," say1Johnson, however, in nn appendix to hill ire of Gr«ne," ill in favor of the St, Mary'•• and would poin~ to the fiut bluff SECO~D EXPEDITION. 121 echoed, for the first time, with a hymn of lofty cheer from Eu-ropetln voices. " There we s.1ng a psnlme of thanbgi,·ing unto God." Prayer was •uade, ant!, g:IIIJCI'ing: courage from tiJC exercise of thr·ir J cvot ions, Otlr Huguenots uppliC'd thernsdvcs to tiJC duty of l.111ildin;!' the111Sd\·es a fortr·c.~."'. In tlris work they were assisted by the Indians.• A few Jays sufliccd, with this help, to give their f:tbrie form. It was built in the shape of a triangle. "'fhc side towardc tllC west, ''l'hiclJ was townrde the Iande, was enclosed with a little trench and raised with towers made in forme of a, battlement of nine foote high : the other side, which was towarde the river, was inelo!:!cd with a palisade of plankes of timber, after the manner that gabions arc made. On the south side, there was a kinde of bastion, within which I caused nn l10uso for the munition to be built. It was all buildcd of fagot!; and sand, sa\'ing about two or three foote high with turfl!s, whereof the battlements were made. In the middest T caused a great court to be made of eigJ,tccn paces long and broad ; in the middest wherl!of, on the on'} side, drawing toward tl10 soutl1 1 I builded a corps de garde, and an house, on the other side, towardo ~he north." • on the south aide of that ri~· er." But this is certainly a mistake. The ge11f'ral conviction now is, that our St. Juhn'a wu the 1.lay River of the F1ench. • Jarque~ de i\loyne de Morgues repreeenl.ii tht: lnolian Chief or Para. cou~si of the neighborhood, Satouriova by name, u taking great umbrage nt the erl'ctioro of the fortress La Caroline within his dominions; thus doi!Crin!j: from Laudonniere, who deserihes him and hi.'t 5ubjects as chetrrul!y a~si3•ing in it~ erection. Cl1arle•·oi." undertakes to reconcilo the diff<·l'1:nce hetwe<'n thl:'m; but in a manner which would soon lea1·e the l'hronicle nnd the hi~t<wian 3t the mercy of the mcreBt conjecture. The maUer i~ scarcely of importance. G |