What to see in America . Dragging an Alligator fromIt8 Hole herons, cranes, flamingoes. 294 What to See in America the entrance to the bay is Grand Isle, a former haunt ofpirates whose most noted leaders were Pierre and JeanLafitte, at one time distinguished citizens of New expedition broke up their establishment here in 1714,and a strong pirate force went down the coast fifty milesand fortified itself on Last Island. The Lafittes established themselves at Galves-. ton, Texas, but thestay at both theseplaces was short,though pirates con-tinued to be a terrorin the Gulf until
What to see in America . Dragging an Alligator fromIt8 Hole herons, cranes, flamingoes. 294 What to See in America the entrance to the bay is Grand Isle, a former haunt ofpirates whose most noted leaders were Pierre and JeanLafitte, at one time distinguished citizens of New expedition broke up their establishment here in 1714,and a strong pirate force went down the coast fifty milesand fortified itself on Last Island. The Lafittes established themselves at Galves-. ton, Texas, but thestay at both theseplaces was short,though pirates con-tinued to be a terrorin the Gulf until Island had be-come a pleasure resortin 1856, when a savagetropical tempest ob-literated it and itsfashionable hotel withall the hotels New Orleansthe Mississippi be-comes less defined, andthe stream finallyloses itself in themarshes throughwhich various channels lead to the Gulf of Mexico. At thelower end of the South Pass are the wonderful jetties con-structed by Capt. Eads in 1875 to 1879 at a cost of 15,000, forced the river to scour out a channel thirty feet deepwhere formerly the draft was not more than ten feet. Onejetty is two and one third miles long and the other one andone half miles long. They are made of willow brush, rubble,and concrete. Scale of Miles Louisiana 295 Morgan City, eighty miles west of New Orleans, is thestarting point for a steamer trip up the picturesque BayouTeche into the district to which the Acadians were exile
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