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“Sometime in the 1920s or 1930s, a Cajun trapper reportedly found the tablet La Salle had buried near the river’s mouth in 1682. Unable to make sense of its Latin inscription, he melted the lead into fishing weights and buckshot. 21” quote by Lawrence N. Powell — Download Open image

““Sometime in the 1920s or 1930s, a Cajun trapper reportedly found the tablet La Salle had buried near the river’s mouth in 1682. Unable to make sense of its Latin inscription, he melted the lead into fishing weights and buckshot. 21””

Lawrence N. Powell

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