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View of the valley of the Mississippi, or, The emigrant's and traveller's guide to the West

containing a general description of that entire country : and also notices of the soil, productions, rivers, and other channels of intercourse and trade : and likewise of the cities and towns, progress of education, &c. of each state and territory

Having in the last chapter given a brief and general History of the Valley of the
Mississippi, I proceed now to make some remarks upon the rapid increase of
population in that region, and to assign some reasons for believing that it must
continue to increase at a rapid rate, for along period, in future. The first French
settlements in the Valley of the Mississippi were made in the latter part of the
seventeenth century. In 1699, Bienville and Ibberville planted a colony at Biloxi,
which is in the ...