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Currents. Tendency in the old Soundings to be restored. Changes 

 of Mouths in a Century inconsiderable. Return to New Orleans. 

 Battle-ground. Sugar-Mill. Contrast of French and Anglo-American 

 Races. Causes of Difference. State and Progress of Negroes in Lou 

 isiana ..... .... .111 



CHAPTER XXX. 



Voyage from New Orleans to Port Hudson. The Coast, Villas, and 

 Gardens. Cotton Steamers. Flat Boats. Crevasses, Inundations. 

 Decrease of Steamboat Accidents. Snag-Boat. Musquitoes. Natural 

 Rafts. Bartram on buried Trees at Port Hudson. Dr. Carpenter s 

 Observations. Landslip described. Ancient Subsidence in the Delta 

 followed by an upward Movement, deducible from the buried Forest 

 at Port Hudson . . . . . . . . . .129 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



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 up 

 right Trees in Bank. Raccourci Cut-off. Bar at Mouth of Red River. 

 Shelly Fresh- water Loam of Natchez. Recent Ravines in Table- 

 Land. Bones of extinct Quadrupeds. Human Fossil Bone. Ques 

 tion of supposed co-existence of Man with extinct Mammalia discussed. 

 Tornado at Natchez. Society, Country Houses, and Gardens. 

 Landslips. Indian Antiquities 148 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



Natchez. Vidah a and Lake Concordia. Hybernations of Aligator. 

 Bonfire on Floating Raft. Grand Gulf. Magnolia Steamer. Vicks- 

 burg 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 Vicks- 

 burg to Memphis. Monotony of River Scenery. Squall of Wind. 

 Actors on Board. Negro mistaken for White. Manners in the Back 

 woods. Inquisitiveness. Spoilt Children. Equality and Leveling. 

 Silence of English Newspapers on Oregon Question. . . .155 



