NEW PLYMOUTH 



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NEW POMERANIA 



New Orleans, Louisiana. 1. Lafayette Square, with S. Patrick's Church, left, and, right, the City Hall. 2. Cathedral of 

 S. Louis and statue of General Andrew Jackson. 3. Canal Street, the principal thoroughfare of the city. 4. The new 



Court House in Royal Street 



libraries are the Howard Memorial, 

 the Tilton Memorial, and one sup- 

 ported by the state. The French 

 Opera House, the principal place 

 of entertainment, dates from 1859. 

 The cemeteries are a remarkable 

 feature of New Orleans The soil 

 is so saturated with water that 

 burial beneath the surface is not 

 possible, and vaults with arched 

 cavities are used, the coffins being 

 ranged one above the other in tiers, 

 12 ft. above the ground level. 



New Orleans is one of the most 

 important commercial cities of 

 America, and, after Liverpool, the 

 foremost cotton port of the world. 

 Although primarily a commercial 

 city, it has also flourishing manu- 

 facturing interests. Sugar refining 

 is a leading industry, and machin- 

 ery, cotton goods, cotton -seed oil, 

 boots and shoes, cigars, and furni- 

 ture are produced. 



Settled in 1717 by the French, 

 who named it after the duke of 



NEW ORLEANS 



'CENTRAL) 

 .'Scale of Yards 



New Orleans, Louisiana. Plan of the central districts of the city, showing the 

 principal quays on the Mississippi 



Orleans, then regent of France, 

 New Orleans was later deserted, 

 but was resettled in 1722. The 

 second settlement made immediate 

 progress, and New Orleans became 

 the seat of government of the 

 French territory of Louisiana, and 

 continued to flourish after its ces- 

 sion to Spain in 1763. In 1800 it 

 fell to France, from whom it was 

 purchased by the U.S.A., together 

 with the remainder of Louisiana, in 

 1803, and ten years later was in- 

 corporated, having become a port 

 of entry the previous year. It was 

 the capital of Louisiana down to 

 1849, when it was superseded by 

 Baton Rouge, but 15 years later 

 it again became the seat of govern- 

 ment until 1880, when it once more 

 gave place to Baton Rouge. In 

 1815 an unsuccessful attack on the 

 city was made by the British. 

 Pop. 387,000. 



New Plymouth. Town of New 

 Zealand. Situated on the S.W. 

 coast of N. Island, N. of Mt. Eg- 

 mont, it is the chief town of the 

 Taranaki dist. It is a centre for 

 the cattle-rearing and dairying in- 

 dustry of the dist., and is con- 

 nected by rly. via Marton Junction 

 with both Wellington and Auck- 

 land. The first settlement was 

 made by the pioneers of the New 

 Plymouth Co. in 1841. Pop. 9,800. 



New Pomerania (Germ. Neu- 

 pommern). Former name of the 

 island of the Bismarck Archipelago 

 now called New Britain (q.v.). It 

 was taken from Germany in 1914. 



