A
JOURNAL
Of the Last
VOYAGE
Perform’d by
Monſr. de la Sale,
TO THE
Gulph of Mexico,
To find out the
Mouth of the Miſſiſipi River;
CONTAINING,
An Account of the Settlements he endeavour’d to
make on the Coaſt of the aforeſaid Bay, his
unfortunate Death, and the Travels of his
Companions for the Space of Eight Hundred
Leagues acroſs that Inland Country of America.
now call’d Louiſiana, (and given by the King of
France to M. Crozat,) till they came into Canada.
Written in French by Monſieur Joutel,
A Commander in that Expedition;
And Tranſlated from the Edition juſt publiſh’d at Paris.
With an exact Map of that vaſt Country, and a Copy of the
Letters Patents granted by the K. of France to M. Crozat.
LONDON, Printed for A. Bell at the Croſs-Keys and
Bible in Cornhill, B. Lintott at the Croſs Keys in Fleet-ſtreet,
and J. Baker in Pater-Noſter-Row, 1714.