Note 240 — Chapter XVI
Reading edition
Point Houmas is just below Donaldsonville. The Houmas numbered only about sixty souls at the beginning of the nineteenth century. On the Chetimachas, see ante, note 147. Bayou La Fourche enters the Mississippi at Donaldsonville, and must not be confounded with another stream of the same name in La Fourche Parish. The mouth of Bayou Plaquemine, is at the town of Plaquemine, in Iberville Parish.—Ed.