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Varied Pooulatlc Types
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The Louisiana historian, Martin, says that one of Crozat's ships vith 300 settlers from France arrived tvo years later.
Among these vere 80 girls from the "Saltpetriere," a noted house of correction in Paris. About this time a vessel arrived from Guinea vith a cargo of Africans to be employed in cultivating the soil.
This, vhile it shovs an apparent broad construction in the charter vith reference to the trade in pearls and vool, proves that Biloxi must have been quite an important village I63 years ago.
Fort Louis
When the French moved over to this side of the bay they built Fort Louis, omitting the holy prefix of the title. This vas probably a palisaded structure, like the forts of the American pioneers on the dark and bloody soil of Kentucky and the old North-vest Territory beyond the Ohio, as no monumental mound remains to mark the site of the ramparts, though a vide villov-bordered ditch is pointed out by some of the inhabitants as probably being the moat at the foot of the palisades or of the former bre~st-vorks.
The fort at Ol^Biloxi, to which reference vill be made in a subsequent article, vas, according to the colonial records, at all events, built of heavy timbers.
Under Four Flaps or Sive or Six
During the first century of its existence Nev Biloxi fell under the dominion of four governments—French, British, Spanish, and American.
It vas temporarily in the Civil War a part	of Confederate
States1 territory,	defended for a short	time	by	a sham battery
of frowning wooden	guns. But it fell a	prey	to	the marines of
the Federal fleets	early in the strife.
1886
Today it is a thriving cosmopolis, vith the imprint of Saxon, Frank, Visigoth, and Latin upon its population, and the best 'elements of all predominating.
It possesses to the highest degree all the advantages of climate and the attractions characteristic of the Mississippi seacoast, and is justly one of the most celebrated resorts or watering-places in all thiB highly-favored region.
In summer it enjoys great popularity as an objective point
for the long excursion trains that are constantly leaving the
Crescent“City, vhile a large part of its resident population
at this season is dravn from the winter vorkers of the Southern metropolis.