[13] Description of South Carolina, p. 68.
[14] The admiral was on board of the Hercules, which drew twenty-one feet of water, and there were but twenty-two feet into the harbour in the highest tides; so that they despaired of carrying in this ship. But an old Canadian, named Crimeau, a man of experience, who was perfectly acquainted with that coast, boasted of being able to do it, and succeeded; for which he was the next year honoured with letters of noblesse. Dumont (an officer there at that time) 11.22.
But Bellin, from the charts of the admiralty, makes but twenty feet of water on the barr of Pensacola. The difference may arise from the tides, which are very irregular and uncertain on all that coast, according to the winds; never rising above three feet, sometimes much less. In twenty-four hours the tide ebbs in the harbour for eighteen or nineteen hours, and flows five or six. Laval.
[15] Charlevoix Hist. New France, Tom. III. p. 447.
THE HISTORY OF LOUISIANA
[BOOK I.]
The Transactions of the French in LOUISIANA.
[CHAPTER I.]
Of the first Discovery and Settlement of LOUISIANA.