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< according to the above receipt for
< cure of the gravel. and in three days
• observed he ceaSed to void Sand, and
' continuing to adnere to the rules for
< prevention, he has hardly since the
' year 1740 had a fy mptom of the
< gravel.
A sriend to the bunrarn Race.
Hi/tshire, March 31, 1753.
[Our Wiltshire correspondent's above
method of diluting may prohah.^i prevent
the serration of gravel in many casts,
and palliate the semplomr of the stone in
some .' it maty alio he of use in obviating
so.-b other distempers as arise front concretions
in the stuih, and callosities in the
solids, hut then it would make seme persons
dropsical, disorder the stomach, and
create fiatuleneier j
[In anfwer to Some queries concerning
Dr. Halrt/ofs Lithonriptic, and the
difficulty of getting oyster she// lime, we
see by a new edition of his receipt, that
be approves of quick /ime of any kind,
in fine o swdet, and thr t is all the alteration
from what we published in Oct.
last, p. 346, except the word strain
instead of potrr, ; and he tells us,
that the decoction os marshinall..ws,
propofed try P B instead oS common
water, can add no virtue to the medicine.]
Some Account of the N A T t v E s of Louiislana.
fSee Vol. 5. p. 5i9)
By M LE Pace nu PrtATz.
^S FN the French entered this firre
tS q country, they found it inbabited
by a great number os different rra'ions :
I will only mention the most considerable,
which are, the PastagSrrlas, the
Oremae, the Tonicae, tire Ausehez. the
Chfeaches, rheTcha'Car. the Tinsus, the
Natsitnehei. the Adiesis, the Assioaii, die
Asanas the Cadulnqurous, the Yoe ^.ours,
and the TchetiumU^ has. — T h e Oumai
and Tonicar being in the neighbourhood
of New ldileane, are reduced to a very
few families by the immoderate ufe os
brandy, wn^h they found means to
M A G A 2 1 N 2 of M A G A ^ 1 N E
procure in Spite of all the precautions
the governor could take.—The To,./cas
have always been Sis attached to the
French, that the king hath decorated
their chief with a blue wreath, with a
medal pendent from it, presented him
with a gold headed cane, and made
him brigadier of the Red Armies i e.
the auxiliary troops of the natives.—
The A^atsitoches are Seated upon the Red
river : The Asiris to the Weft of them,
and the .dysin.-ris further Well, and to
the North of them lie the Caaledajanius.
The Allaneras and Iiszous are seated
upon the risers of those names. The
Chicachas, our declared enemies, are retired
into the country to the East ofthe
river os St- Leuis, thither the Natchez
too retired in the last war we had with
them. 'lire Tinses, Tchatcas, and Tchetimactchae,
ate branches of the Natchez.
These varinus nations, besides the
language peculiar to each, have one
common language, by means whereof
they can converse together, and is os
the Same utility as tbe Lingua Franca of
the Levant. Their manners and customs
are pretty much the Same. The
character therefore of the catcher, who
are a great people with whom I lived
7 year's, and am best acquainted, may
serve for that of all the rest.
The Natchez, as well as all the other
natives of Louisiana, have very regular
features, arrd are strong and well made.
and in general talk they live to a very
advanced age. and, in their old age,
arenot very infirm s To this the plainnes
of their diet, their sobriety, their
exercise, the Solubrsty, of the ait, and
the wisdom of their physicians, who
content themselves with purging the
sick, and never bleed, do not a little
contribute. Their women differ in this
from the Europeans, that they have
doulie breasts; i. e. in the midst oSeach
breast there rtses another Small one, a.
bout 4 inches btoad, with a very long
nipple.
The Natchez are ol a very mild and
humane disposition, when one gives
them no causc os distrust or discontent.
They