. Historic towns of the Southern States. few years in the elder Lemoyne, betterknown as Iberville. In 1699. he was success-ful in finding the mouth of the great river, butrealized that its swamps offered no site for acolony. He and his brother, Bienville, ex-plored the tributaries and the adjacent coasts,and a fort was temporarily thrown up on whatis now the east side of the Back Bay of Ibervilles return from France, in 1702, thepermanent seat of the colony was placed at 27Mile Bluff, on Mobile River, amid the friendlyand industrious Indians. The Spaniards, whohad themselves lately o
. Historic towns of the Southern States. few years in the elder Lemoyne, betterknown as Iberville. In 1699. he was success-ful in finding the mouth of the great river, butrealized that its swamps offered no site for acolony. He and his brother, Bienville, ex-plored the tributaries and the adjacent coasts,and a fort was temporarily thrown up on whatis now the east side of the Back Bay of Ibervilles return from France, in 1702, thepermanent seat of the colony was placed at 27Mile Bluff, on Mobile River, amid the friendlyand industrious Indians. The Spaniards, whohad themselves lately occupied Pensacola, vig-orously remonstrated at this occupation ofFlorida, as they had at the building of FortMaurepas at Biloxi. But Iberville was actingfor Louis XIV., and soon had everything ofvalue moved via Massacre (now Dauphine)Island and Mobile Bay to Fort Louis de laMobile. A town was laid out and with Choctaws and Chickasawsfollowed, and alliances were made. The estab-lishment of what was even then popularly. FACSIMILE PAGE OF BAPTISMAL RECORD (1704) WITH THE AUTOGRAPHOF BIENVILLE. 333 334 Mobile called Mobile was the entrance of a new powerinto the Gulf country. Tonty, the old com-panion of La Salle, came to stay, and colonistsfrom France were brought to the port at Dau-phine Island by every ship. The shadowySpanish claim became forgotten west of Pen-sacola, and the English traders from the Atlan-tic colonies found active competitors. Frenchinfluence became dominant in all the g-reatMississippi Valley. It showed itself in explo-ration, religion, trade, and war, and was all di-rected from Mobile. Exploration and religion went Jesuits had not as strong a hold as inCanada, and the Relatioiis throw little lighton Louisiana. But the Seminary of Quebechad missionaries like Davion on the Missis-sippi and at Mobile, and Jesuits were foundamong the Creeks and Choctaws. The Illi-nois region was already known, and portagesthere and eastwar
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