What to see in America . erness. They fanciedthey had found the long-searched-for Fountain of Youth,reported to exist somewhere in the country, but ten of thesoldiers dying from excessive drinking, they were soonconvinced of their error. According to tradition theIndians used to war among themselves for possessionof these curative waters. The town is in a narrow gorgebetween two spurs of the Ozark Mountains. On one sideof its wide Main Street are hotels and shops, and on theother side a row of attractive bath-houses. The springs,which are forty-six in number, vary in temperature fromseventy-si
What to see in America . erness. They fanciedthey had found the long-searched-for Fountain of Youth,reported to exist somewhere in the country, but ten of thesoldiers dying from excessive drinking, they were soonconvinced of their error. According to tradition theIndians used to war among themselves for possessionof these curative waters. The town is in a narrow gorgebetween two spurs of the Ozark Mountains. On one sideof its wide Main Street are hotels and shops, and on theother side a row of attractive bath-houses. The springs,which are forty-six in number, vary in temperature fromseventy-six degrees to one hundred and fifty-eight degrees,and discharge daily one million gallons of clear, tasteless,and odorless water. They have made the town one of themost frequented health and pleasure resorts in America. Arkansas is know^n as the Bear State because bears usedto abound in its forests. The people are nicknamed Tooth-picks, a playful allusion to the bowie knife, which wasformerly called an Arkansas Grand Lake Cypress Trees XXXII Louisiana The climate of Louisiana is in general almost semi-tropical,and even in midwinter the weather is seldom severely surface of the state is mostly low and level. Much ofthe southern part is not over ten feet above the sea, and isliable to frequent inundations both from the rivers and fromstorm-driven waters of the Gulf. The highest portion is inthe extreme north, where it attains an elevation of fourhundred feet in Claiborne County. Louisiana is called thePelican State from the pelican shown in the state people are popularly spoken of as Creoles, a namewhich technically designates the descendants of the originalFrench and Spanish settlers. The chief natural feature of the state is the MississippiRiver. De Soto was its discoverer in 1541, and after anotheryear of exploring to the west of it he returned to its banksopposite Natchez and there died May 21, on Louisianasoil. Lest the savages should mistreat th
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