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Show 122 hoola, and con11nun icate, •xith the R eel rin.:r durinnthc great annnal inundaLion. At the west or north~ west angle of the lake, a creek called Little river enters, which preserves a channel with running \ratc1~ at all seasons, n1eanckring along the bed o[ the lake; but in all other parts its superficies, du ring th~.! dry sea~on from July to Noven1bcr, and ofccn later, is completely drained, and becomes covered with the n1ost lux urious herbage; the bed of the lake then bc4 comes the residence of immense herds of deer, of tur. keys, gees~.!, crane, &c. which feed on the grass and grain. Bayau Tenza ~ervcs only to drain off a part of the \Yatcrs of the inundation from the low lands of the Mississippi, \vhich here communicate "vith the Black river during the season of high water. Between the n1outh of the vVashita, and Villc4 mont's prairie on the right, the current of the river is gentle, and the banks favorable for towing. The lands on both sides have the appearance of beino- above the inundation; the timbPr generally such ~s high lands produce, being chiefly red, white and black oak s, interspersed with a variety of other trees. The tnagnolia granditlora, that infallible sign of the land not being ::;u bjcct to inundation, is not, ho,n :vcr, mnong them. Along the banks a stratum of solid clay, ?~ marle, b observable, apparently of an ancient d cpos1t1? n. It lies in oblique positions_, making an angle of nearly thirty degrees with the horizon, and g<.. nerally inclined \\ ith the d escent nf the river, al1.hm!gh. in a fe,v cases the position was contrary. T11~ber IS se~n projecting rron1 under the solid bank, ~luch seems 1~1d urated, and unquestionably very ~al· Cient, pre!lentJng a very different appearance from recently formed. soil. The river is abont 80 yards wide. A league above the 1nouth cf the \!Vashita, t~e bayau Ha-ha comes in unexpectedly from the nght, and is one of the many passages through which the waters of the great inundation penetrate and per4 vade all the low countries, annihilating, for a time, 123 the currents of the lesser r· . . . of the Mississippi· '"fl Ivers u~ the neighborhood · · 1e veget·1t o · v1gorous alonP' the all . 1 b k ' I 11 IS ren1arkal>Jy . I . ..., ' uvw an ~s ' h. I Wit 1 a thick shrnbber ' . ' v IC 1 are covered blossOin at this late se~' and Innuinerable plants in full V"ll cl~Oll. . I c_mont's pt\lirie is so nat d. bemg mcludcd with· ~e m consequ nee of its government to a o'e 1Jt11 a gt an~ under the French h n 11 eman of tint 1 • lV ot er parts on the Wa 1 .t , ' 1an1e. 1any proprietors. 'fhe Frc:~~ha ~~ name~ after their early extensive settlements 1 1 . pi~ projected and began on t 1IS n ver b t 1 ... massacre planned aJ d · ' u t 1C general . ' 1 Ill part executed b ]' I ans agam~t thetn, and the con ~ y t 1~ ndi. th~ Natchez tribe by th F . . ~fquent destructiOn of undertakinf)"s and thcv ~ ~c nc 1, broke up aJI thc~e that g,oven~I;1ent 1."'1 vel e not.recommcnced under · 1ose pr·une . savannas, without t1mb . . " s arc plamt.i, or producing an exuberance: ;f g~nerally v~ry fertile, and herbage. 'Vhcn a · . f strong, thtck and coarse this state in atl I l~~Jccc o groL~nd has once got into • • c: nc Ian country t . 1 . tumt~ of r e-proclucin cr tjmbc-r '.I C:l.JJ 1<Lve !'lo Oj~por. practic~ to set fire to tl~c dr . . . : ,~t .being an mva~wble to obtam the acl'''"'I1t f} gtt~ss In the fall or wwter (. <I acre 0 att ., ( ' young" tender n·rass beb . t' 1 d~ mg- game when the v b o·ms 0 SI) ' 1 . I young timber and tl b . . tmg : t 1ls c estroys the \rOOd-land Jt . , 1C rr~~fle annu .. Ily gains Uj.~On the known to c~ist in I~\ pr~ 1.a e that the immense plains th . liTienca ffi '"'Y o,v·c tl . . . Is custon1. 1,he 1 . ' ... lCir ongm to on the cast side ancll~ ~~n!. o~ the \Vashita lie chiefly Mississippi hn~l I ~ mbfi generally formed like the ~o the great ~iv;r s ~~m~. rmn the bank of the river mundation in the ~· ,Y. eLI c . more ?r less Sltbject to Water has advance;~; ft:~lin certam g-reat floods the the margin into theW ~~I· as toTbe :cady to pour over a very rare th" ~s 1Ita. his has now becmne quarter of 'l ~1-f, ;nd lt .ma.Y be estimated that from a from inundatioi c l o ~ Inll~ In depth, will remain free much the case n .c unng htgh floods. ·rhis is pretty post of the W ~v~t~ thos~ lands nearly as high as the .. ls uta, With the exception of certain |