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Rouge and Lafayette, La., a width of 40 miles. The shore line at 

 Baton Rouge (fig. 18) crossed the intersection of the Kansas City 

 Southern Railway with the St. Helena Meridian as shown on the 

 Baton Rouge West quadrangle. From this point a 10-foot scarp 

 extends eastward past the Baton Rouge Country Club. 





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Fig. 19. — Shore line of the Talbot bay. 



West of the cape at Lafayette the shore of the Gulf was very low 

 lying; there is no conspicuous scarp separating the Talbot terrace 

 from the Penholoway. The shore line appears to curve northwest- 

 ward past Cankton (Carencro quadrangle) to the south corner of 

 Church Point. 



Within the bay, whose generalized outlines are shown in figure 19, 

 the shore line is made very intricate by distributaries of the Red 

 River delta now occupied by Bayou Cocodrie, Bayou Boeuf, Bayou 

 Rogue, and other bayous. Traces of the original level can still be 



