Note 71 — AN Historical Journal OF THE Late Monsieur de la Sale’s LAST VOYAGE INTO North America To Discover the River MISSISIPI. (continued 2)

Fr. “On voyoit du Côté du midy, & vers l’Orient, la Baye, & les campagnes qui la bordent, de l’Orient au Septentrion, la Rivière se presentoit le long d’un petit costan,”—To the southward and eastward stretched the Bay and the fields which border it, from the east to the north, the river appeared along a gentle slope,—[The phrase, “From the east to the north” squints both ways; the reader must determine the meaning. Perhaps, in the editor’s translation, the comma after the words “border it” should be removed, so as to make the phrase “from the east to the north” qualify the verb “border.” Although the editor’s studies have not qualified him to express an authoritative opinion upon this point of historical geography, he hazards the guess that this river is one of those flowing into Galveston Bay.] C. C. edit.