CONTENTS. vii 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



PAGE 



Return to Mobile. Excursion to the Shores of the Gulf of Mexico. 

 View from Lighthouse. Mouth of Alabama River. Gnathodon in 

 habiting Brackish Water. Banks of these Fossil Shells far Inland. 

 Miring of Cattle. Yellow Fever at Mobile in 1839. Fire in same 

 Year. Voyage from Mobile to New Orleans. Movers to Texas. 

 Lake Pontchartrain. Arrival at New Orleans. St. Louis Hotel. 

 French Aspect of City. Carnival. Procession of Masks . . 84 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



Catholic Cathedral, New Orleans. French Opera. Creole Ladies. 

 v Quadroons. Marriage of Whites with Quadroons. St. Charles 

 Theater. English Pronunciation. Duelist s Grave, Ladies Ordina 

 ry . Procession of Fire Companies. Boasted Salubrity of New Orleans. 

 Goods selling at Northern Prices. Mr. W ilde. Roman Law. 

 Shifting of Capital to Baton Rouge. Debates in Houses of Legisla- 

 lature. Convention and Revision of the Laws. Policy of Periodical 

 State Conventions. Judges cashiered. Limitation of their Term of 

 Office . , 93 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



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 Pont 

 chartrain. Shell Road. Heaps of Gnathodou. Excavation for Gas- 

 Works. Buried upright Trees. Pere Antoine s Date-palm . . 102 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



Excursion from New Orleans to the Mouths of the River. Steamboat 

 Accidents. River Fogs. Successive growths of Willow on River 

 Bank. Pilot-Station of the Balize. Lighthouse destroyed by Hurri 

 cane. Reeds, Shells, and Birds on Mud-banks. Drift-wood. Diffi 

 culty of estimating the annual Increase of Delta. Action of Tides and 



