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leans, his assistant Pauger, who made the earliest map we have of New Orleans, (U and their assistants, lived there.
Again north of them were the quarters for the military officers; Chateaugay and others.
Across the square the first house on the east side was that of the Director General, Hubert.
North of that came the store houses and the residence of the clerks.
On either side of, and behind the chapel, were the barracks.
On the outside, surrounding all, were the kitchens, just inside the fort.
The hospital was established on Deer Island. A map, by Joussette, dated 1699, shows the western end of Deer Island much nearer to the main land than it is today; in fact, only about a quarter of a mile off shore.
Jetties were built on each side of the stream where it entered the gulf near Porter avenue; and the stream, which was fed by springs, was relied on to keep the channel washed out.
Outside of the fort, across the stream to the east, the land was set apart for the settlers. The oldest house in Biloxi, elsewhere described, is just across that stream.
(1)	King, p. 85.
A plat was made of the establishment by De la Tour, in 1721. <*>
A description of the site is set forth in the report of De la Tour to the Western Company in France in 1719. <2>
Nothing more is needed to identify the spot than to walk over the ground. The “Elevated site facing the channel to the Ship Island roadstead,” “The surrounding running stream,” from “A spring whose Waters are clear, clean and very good and which does not dry up at all,” are still there. No other spot fits the description.
One may notice that the knoll was cleared once, long ago, with the exception of a few great live oaks. The majority of those that are there now, though old, are small compared to the stately giants on all the lands surrounding.
When the committee met at old Biloxi to discuss a move, Bienville suggested that they move at once to the Mississippi. Some members of the committee doubted that sailing vessels could get through the passes at the mouth of the river and as they knew that the authorities in France also doubted it they preferred to move to New Biloxi.
Bienville’s vote counted for only one although he was now the commissioned governor of the province. He sent an engineer to map the mouth of the river and take soundings. He sent a ship through. He
(1)	Hamilton, p. 100.
(2)	Mississippi, Rowland, 1-p. 212.
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