Show the natchez trace back in pioneer days when the first boatmen made their way with their crude produce laden craft down the cumberland the tennessee the ohio and the mississippi to new orleans the natchez trace played a large part says literary digest this was an overland route of about ajo miles the merest trace through woods roods and swamps from nashville to natchez it ran through country that Is now ten alabama and mississippi dahomey Is one of the colonies or provinces of french west africa it embraces the former native kingdom of dahomey and some other territory with a coast line of about 70 miles be tween To goland and nigeria on the gulf of guinea the colony has an area of 41 square miles and a pop illation of over a million of which the europeans number more than one thousand the town of porto novo Is the capital and principal business center |