Note 52 — Chapter III · {XI}[48] Red River—Exploring Expedition of 1806—Return to the Arkansa—Earthquakes

Sibley's report on Red River says of the settlement at the rapids (1803), "No country whatever can exhibit handsomer plantations." See American State Papers, "Indian Affairs," i, p. 726. There were also at that time a few settlers on the north side of the river between the rapids and Avoyelles, but none on the south side which was more subject to inundation.—Ed.