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LA SALLE
false advice set him entirely astray, for,
thinking himself much further north than
he was, he not only passed Espiritu Santa
Bay (Appalachee [or Mobile]) without
recognizing it, but even followed the
coast far beyond the River Colbert,
and would even have continued to follow
it, had they not perceived by its
turning south, and by the latitude, that
they were more than forty or fifty leagues
from the mouth, the more so as the river,
before emptying into the gulf, coasts along
the shore of the gulf to the west; and, as
longitude is unknown to pilots, it proved
that he had greatly passed his parallel lines.
The vessels at last, in the middle of February
[January 19], met at Espiritu Santo
Bay, where there was an almost continual
roadstead. They resolved to return whence
they came, and advanced ten or twelve
leagues to a bay which they called St. Louis
Bay (St. Bernard). As provisions began
to fail, the soldiers had already landed, the
Sieur de la Salle explored and sounded the
bay, which is a league broad, with a good
bottom. He thought that it might be the
right arm of the River Colbert. He brought
the frigate in without accident on the i8th
of February. The channel is deep, so deep,
in fact, that even on the sand bar, which
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6104/m1/243/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.