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trundling along quite like a certain great ancestor of ours. We came up the
river and turned into this Bayou for the purpose of examining
lands. This is the great sugar region and we have been looking
and are yet to look at more plantations. We are pretty well
pleased, but do not know whether we shall purchase or not.
It is a most singular looking country. By looking at the map,
you will see that this Bayou leaves the Mississippi River at Donaldsonville
& runs off west and south into the Gulph.
It is what the name implies "a fork"
& is a fork of the Miss. river branching off
at Donaldsonville & making for the ocean.

From the north at {illegible}, down to
Thibadeauxville 40 or 50 miles it is a
continuous village of small French farmers
with occasionally an American planter among
them. The Bayou is about as wide as
an ordinary street in one of our cities
& is navigable for large steam boats, which
ply on it regularly, & seem to pass just by the
door. There are also boats of other kinds &
I had well nigh said of all kinds also on
the Bayou. Sail, oars, flats & boats
drawn by horses which go on the bank
like those on the canals. Indeed it is a

trundling along
quite like a certain great ancestor of ours. We came up the
river and turned into this Bayou for the purpose of examining
lands. This is the great sugar region and we have been looking
and are yet to look at more plantations. We are pretty well
pleased, but do not know whether we shall purchase or not.
It is a most singular looking country. By looking at the map,
you will see that this Bayou leaves the Mississippi River at Donaldsonville
& runs off west and south into the Gulph.
It is what the name implies "a fork"
& is a fork of the Miss. river branching off
at Donaldsonville & making for the ocean.

From the north at {illegible}, down to
Thibadeauxville 40 or 50 miles it is a
continuous village of small French farmers
with occasionally an American planter among
them. The Bayou is about as wide as
an ordinary street in one of our cities
& is navigable for large steam boats, which
ply on it regularly, & seem to pass just by the
door. There are also boats of other kinds &
I had well nigh said of all kinds also on
the Bayou. Sail, oars, flats & boats
drawn by horses which go on the bank
like those on the canals. Indeed it is a