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Show 15! Ivl'Carlfs New Or!eans I EMIGRANT'S GUIDE. - .. Mile:r. 51316" 6 322 The route by water from Natchez to the Hot Springs on Ouachitta, will be found in numbers 7 and 22. The route from Natchez to Natchitoches, will be found in num-bers 7, 12, and :L2. The route from Natchez by water, to Opelousas anJ Attacapas, can he taken frum numbers 14, 15, 16, and 22. Jt wouiJ !:'Well the list of tables to too large a bulk, to give all t~e roads anJ river routes dirfct: there is, we trust, no road or route by water of any consequence, in either the state of Louisiana, Missis!: ippi, or territory of Alabama, not embraced in the lists incluued in this treatise. No. 23. From Natchez to Opelousas and Attacapas by Alexandria, or Red river. Miles. Concordia, west bank of Mississippi 1 1 Bayou Crocodile 15 16 Black river 22 38 Bushly creek 11 49 Prairie of Ocatahoo}a 3 52 S. Vv. extremity of Ocatahoola 6 58 Hemphill's creek 2 60 Little, or Ocatahoola river .. 22 82 Alex~ndria 21 103 Bayou Breuf - 15 118 Mulhollan's .. 2 120 Bayou Crocodile 12 132 Pine Prairie, Opelousas 10 142 M'Daniel's, head of Prairie Mamou 8 150 Hanchett's • 3 153 Fontenot's 7 HiO Opelousas church .. 12 172 Prair,ie I .. aurent 4 176 Lower end of ditto, bri8ge over Bayou Fusilier 9 185 St. Martinsville - - - _ 20 205 New Iberia 9 214 Sorrel's .. 19 233 Court-house, parish of St. Mary 17 250 Renthrop's ferry - - • 21 271 Mouth of Teche' -' 1 272 No. 24. From Natchez to Opelousas by the Prairie of Avoyelles. . . M·tles. Ferry over Buffalo. (See No. 21.) 29 Fort Adams, Loftus' heights 16 45 a·1°N.lat. • 6 51 EMIGRANT'S GUIDE. 153 Miles. Ferry over Mississippi, between the entrance of Red and At-chafalaya ri.,.ers - - - - - 10 63 Avoyelles Prairie 20 83 Over, ditto .. 6 89 Bayou le Mourir 3 92 Bayou Breuf - . 12 1 14 Bayou Crocodile .. 5 11 9 Pine Prairie .. 4 J 23 Mouth of Tech e. (See preceding table.) - 1301 253 It ~ill be perceived, on · comparing these two foregoing tables, that th~ d1sta~ce from Nat chez to the lower part of Attacapas, is ne¥ ·thtrty m~les l~ss by the mouth of Red river than by the town of Alexandna; but the upper or Alexandria road can Le passed, when the lower or Avoye1Ies route cannot. Both passes over wide extent of overflowed lands, though the former, in proportion to distance has more hilly and consequently better ground fo r road than the 1~tter. No. 25. Road from Natchez to Milledgeville in Georgia, lJy Montice , 1 ~State of Mississippi, and Fort St. Stephens, Alabama territory. Mile . Washington Hoggat's Head of Homochitto river Bo~ue Chito MONTICELLO Winchester on the Chickisawhay river Easte rn branch of Pascagoula - Sintabogue river FORT ST. STEPHEN'S Fort Cla iborne Hurricane Spring Fort Decatur P0int Comfort Chatahoochy river Fort Lawrence Fort Hawkin's ~tilled geville No. 26. 6 12 28 4 18 58 32 no 105 195 11 206 21 227 12 239 25 264 43 307 56 363 12 375 30 405 45 450 50 500 " 45 545 To Nashville in Tenne:ssee. Washington Seltzerstown Union Huntston Gibson's port Grindstone ford Wbi le sand creek, 4\corn creek • branch of Big-bJack ... .. Miles1 G 6 12 7 19 7 2G 16 42 6 48 12 60 l-6 76 |