334 EL W. Hilgard—Geological Reconnoissance of Louisiana. 
portion, the most fertile uplands of the state ; the region adjoin- 
ing the Bayou Téche having, in times past, received and de- 
served the title of the ‘‘Garden of Louisiana” ; not inferior in 
hill lands, especially on the higher ridges a 
capped by rocky knolls of ferruginous sandstone, while slaty 
* This Journal, May, 1866; ibid, Nov., 1866, ibid, Jan. 1869. 
Second Report on the Geology of Alabama, p. 146, et al. 
Mississippi Report, 1860, p. 27. 
