CONTENTS. 



CHAP. XXVIII. 



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Negroes not attacked by Yellow Fever. History of Mr. 

 Wilde s Poem. The Market, New Orleans. Motley 

 Character of Population. Levee and Steamers. First 

 Sight of Mississippi River. View from the Cupola of 

 the St. Charles. Site of New Orleans. Excursion to 

 Lake Pontchartrain. Shell Road. Heaps of Gnathodon. 

 Excavation for Gas-Works. Buried upright Trees. 

 Pere Antoine s Date-palm - \ 1~ 



CHAP. XXIX. 



Excursion from New Orleans to the Mouths of the River. 

 Steam-Boat Accidents. River Fogs. Successive Growths 

 of Willow on River Bank. Pilot-Station of the Balize. 

 Lighthouse destroyed by Hurricane. Reeds, Shells, and 

 Birds on Mud-Banks. Drift-wood. Difficulty of esti 

 mating the annual Increase of Delta. Action of Tides 

 and Currents. Tendency in the old Soundings to be 

 restored. Changes of Mouths in a Century inconsi 

 derable. Return to New Orleans. Battle-Ground. 

 Sugar-Mill. Contrast of French and Anglo-American 

 Races. Causes of Difference. State and Progress of 

 Negroes in Louisiana - - - 1 40 



CHAP. XXX. 



Voyage from New Orleans to Port Hudson. The Coast, 

 Villas and Gardens. Cotton Steamers. Flat Boats. 

 Crevasses and Inundations. Decrease of Steam-Boat 

 Accidents. Snag-Boat. Musquitos. Natural Rafts. 

 Bartram on buried Trees at Port Hudson. Dr. Carpen 

 ter s Observations. Landslip described. Ancient Sub 

 sidence in the Delta followed by an upward Movement, 

 deducible from the buried Forest at Port Hudson - ] G 5 



