CONTENTS. IX 



CHAP. XXXI. 



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Fontania near Port Hudson. Lake Solitude. Floating 

 Island. Bony Pike. Story of the Devil s Swamp. 

 Embarking by Night in Steam-Boat. Literary Clerk. 

 Old Levees undermined. Succession of upright buried 

 Trees in Bank. Kaccourci Cut-off. Bar at Mouth of 

 Red River. Shelly Freshwater Loam of Natchez. 

 Recent Ravines in Table-Land. Bones of extinct Qua 

 drupeds. Human Fossil Bone. Question of supposed 

 co-existence of Man with extinct Mammalia discussed. 

 Tornado at Natchez. Society, Country Houses, and 

 Gardens. Landslips. Indian Antiquities - 185 



CHAP. XXXII. 



Natchez. Vidalia and Lake Concordia. Hybernation of 

 Alligator. Bonfire on Floating Raft. Grand Gulf. 

 Magnolia Steamer. Yicksburg to Jackson (Mississippi) by 

 Railway. Fossils on Pearl River. Ordinary at Jackson. 

 Story of Transfer of State-House from Natchez. Vote 

 by Ballot. Popular Election of Judges. Voyage from 

 Vicksburg to Memphis. Monotony of River Scenery. 

 Squall of &quot;Wind. Actors on Board. Negro mistaken 

 for White. Manners in the Backwoods. Inquisitiveness. 

 Spoilt Children. Equality and Levelling. Silence of 

 English Newspapers on Oregon Question - 202 



CHAP. XXXIII. 



Bluffs at Memphis. New Madrid. No Inn. Under 

 mining of River Bank. Examination of Country shaken 

 by Earthquake of 1811-12. Effects of Passage of Waves 

 through Alluvial Soil. Circular Cavities or Sand-Bursts. 

 Open Fissures. Lake Eulalie drained by Shocks. Bor- 



