The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946 Page: 475
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La Salle in Texas
in the sailing log. On December 27, 1684, at 28 14' north lati-
tude, as noted above, the party had sounded an oozy sea bottom
at a depth of 192 feet and had changed the course from north-
west to west-northwest.2 Four days of travel on such a course
leads directly to the present Jefferson County.
The Jefferson County landing place is further substantiated
by the description given of the country. Henri Joutel, premier
historian of the La Salle expedition, described the land as "a
spacious plain Country of much Pasture Ground."3 In all of his
later narrations, Joutel called a prairie a plain, which would
indicate that the landing place was on the border of an exten-
sive grassy prairie. Jefferson County is the first noteworthy
section of country along the coast west of the Mississippi that
2Henry Reed Stiles (ed.), Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage,
1684-7 (Albany, 1906), 65-66. Cited hereafter as Joutel, Journal.
sJoutel, Journal, 67.475
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