320.
[27:3] _Ibid._, pp.

128, 129.
[27:4] The contrast is vigorously emphasized by Mr.Bancroft: "Such was Louisiana more than a half-century after the first attempt at colonization by La Salle.

Its population may have been five thousand whites and half that number of blacks.

Louis XIV.

had fostered it with pride and liberal expenditures; an opulent merchant, famed for his successful enterprise, assumed its direction; the Company of the Mississippi, aided by boundless but transient credit, had made it the foundation of their hopes; and, again, Fleury and Louis XV.