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of about one hundred and seventy miles. Here 

 the beauty of the Mississippi and prospect of the 

 country exhibit a view so enchantingly delight- 

 ful, as scarcely to admit of description. On the 

 side of this elevated, artificial bank, is a range of 

 handsome, neatly built houses, appearing like 

 one continued village, as far as the city of Or- 

 leans. They are one story, framed buildings, 

 elevated on piles six or eight feet high, and well 

 painted ; the paint generally white. The houses 

 for the slaves are mostly placed on straight lines 

 and nicely white-washed. The perpetual verdure 

 of numerous orange trees, intermixed with fig 

 trees surrounding the houses, and planted in 

 groves and orchards near them, highly beau- 

 tify the prospect; while the grateful fragrance 

 of constant blossoms, and the successive prog- 

 ress to plentiful ripened fruit, charm the eye, and 

 regale the senses. 



Baton Rouge, a very fine, flourishing settlement,, 

 is about thirty miles below Point Coupee, on the 

 eastern side of the river. Here the high lands 

 terminate in an elevated bluff, thirty or forty feet 

 above the greatest rise of the water in the river. 

 And here commences the embankment or Levee, 

 which is continued, like that on the western side, 

 to Orleans ; and a range of houses, ornamented 

 with orange and fig trees, the same distance, 

 perfectly similar to that on the opposite bank. 

 Baton Rouge settlement extends about twenty 

 miles on the river, and to a considerable distance 



