March 25, 1699 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
I ran mostly east, like yesterday afternoon: I must have made today 7 leagues and 50 portages over trees and log rafts; and we came on and spent the night at a landing where we found 6 pirogues. Here two small streams unite with this one, one from the north-northwest and the other from the southeast, making it half again bigger and twice as wide.
... The place where I am is one of the prettiest spots I have seen, fine level ground, beautiful woods, clear and bare of canes; but the whole country becomes inundated to a depth of 5 to 6 feet during high water...
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