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Show 120 ~1boundccl wi•h muscles and periwinkles. The mus. cles were of the l~ind called pearl 1nuscles. The n1L'n dressc(r a quantity or them, considering them as an ugr eablc food; but l\ir. D. found the1n tough and u npa:atabk. Oll arriving at the 1nouth of the Catahoola, they laml< d to pr')cure information frmn a Frenchman set. tied there. Having a g rant from the Spanish govern. 1ncnt , he has mddc a s1na1l sctt lemencJ aud keeps a fLl , y -~)<Mt for carr) i11g ove-r men and horses travelling to <.t. k l f;·on1 Natch, z, and the scttlen1ents on Red river and on the- '\r.~ ~hi~a river. T'he country here is all al1uvi,d . In proCC'lS or tin1C, the rivers shutting up ancient pa~~)::l gcs and c-lcv:.1ting the banks over \\~lich their waters pat.;s, no longcr cmnmunicate with the s~nnc facility as fOinlcrly ; the c:onsequencc i~, that In~my larger tracts f011n cd y sul)jcct to inundation, are now entirdy exempt !i·mn Lhat inconYenicnce. Such is the si~thttion of a n1o~t ,·,\luctble tract upon which thi • Frcnchm 1n is settled. Hi-; honsc stands on an I ndian 1nount, with sevet\tl others in vie\L There is also a species of ramp:1rt surronnd~n g this pbce, and one very elevated mount, a vi ew and de ·c, iption of 'vhieh is postponcd til! th · retnrn; their pre~e11t situation not a.lo·,ril 1g tn· the rcqni·)ite de by. The soil is c:qual to the bc'lt 1Ylt.,si...,:'lippi bottoms.* '*The rc is an embankment running from tht ~alahoola to Black river (inclos;ng aboullwo hundt· ·d <.HT•:! ') of rich land), at present about ten fed high , and ten feet IJI'o 1. Chis surrounds ftJul' large mounds of earth at the clistauce of a bow-shot from e.tch other; each of which may be twenty feet high · one hundtcd feet broad, and three hundr~ct feet long at the top, besidc.::s a stupen· dous turret situate on the b.tck part of the whole, or farthest from the watel', wl~ose base covers about an acre of ground, rising by two steps or stories tapering in the ascc.::nt, the whole surmounted i.Jy a 'SlT'It cone with 1ts top cut oft: Thi~ tow\!r~f f;!arth on admeasun:mcnt was founct to be eighty feet pcrpendt• cular. 121 . They .obtained from the French settler the following hst of dtstances between the 1nouth of Red river and the post on the 'iVashita, called fort Miro. Fro.m the mouth of Red riycr to the mouth of Black nver ' · • . • • • • • 10 leagues. To the mouth of Catahoola, Washita, T and Tenza, • . . . • . 22 , o the rive~ ~fa-ha, on the right, • . 1 fo the Pratne de Villemont on the sa1ne Sl''d" e , • . . . . ' . . • To the bayau Louis, •on the same side, rapids here, • . . • • • To bayau Breufs, on the same side • To the Prairie Noyu, (drowned sa~an: na ), . . • To Pine Point, on ~he.lef~, : ~ · • To bayau Calumet, • . . . • : To the Coaltnine, on the right, and Gypsum on the opposite shore To the first settlement ' ·r o fort Miro, . • • ' . 5 3 3 12 22 F . L eag·ues, 91 W ro!h tl~1s place they proceeded to the mouth of as~uta, In lat. 35o 37' 7u N. and cnc~mped on th evcnmg of the 23d. e Thi~ river. derives its appellation from the name of an Indmn tnbe formerly resident on its banks. the remnant of which, it is said, went into the g;eat plains tf the westward, and either c01npose a small tribe ~~~m~elves, . or are in~orporated into another nation. \V e .lack nver loses Its name at the junction of the ~shJta, ~atahoola, and Tenza, although our maps ;;~zescnt It as taking place of the War,hita. The trib:za and Ca~ahoola r are also nan1ed from Indian 1 s now extmct. fhe latter is a creek twel eagues ~ong, which is the issue of a lake of the sa~~ :~~' . eight leag.ues in length and about two leagues xcadth. It hes west. from the mouth of the Cata.. 16. |