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And people want to know why I love archaeology so much!
>From: Curtis Tunnell, INTERNET:[log in to unmask]
>Subject: LaSalle FLASH
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 07:30:44 -0600
>When LaSalle left France to establish his colony in the New World, Louis
>XIV gave him 4 beautiful bronze cannons with floral decoration and =
>jumping dolphin lifting handles. They were emblazoned with the giant =
>"L" and crown of the Sun King. =20
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>In 1995 we recovered one of those cannons from the wreck of La Belle in
>Matagorda Bay. During subsequent excavations, we found an incrustation
indicating that a second bronze cannon had lain beside the one we recovered.
It was at a slightly higher elevation on the port side, and had probably
been exposed by a storm surge, and dragged from the wreck by a shrimp net. =20
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>The hull of the Belle is heeled over a bit on the starboard side, and =
>the crew speculated that the other two heavy bronze cannons might be at
>the bottom of the hull on that side in order to balance the load.
>
>Yesterday afternoon, after removing a box and barrel on the starboard =
>side, the muzzle of an elaborately decorated bronze cannon was =
>encountered!!!! This is number three. Is LaSalle's fourth bronze =
>cannon still awaiting discovery in the hull of the Belle??
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>Everything considered, the 2.5 million year old stone tools in Ethiopia =
>are probably more important, but our crew doesn't think so.
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>
Anita Cohen-Williams
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