What to see in America . their way up the river saw there a red corn stalk with theheads of fish stuck on it as an offering to the spirits fromsuccessful hunters. Audubon, the naturalist, was born about 1780 on aplantation at INIandeville, twenty miles from New Orleanson the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. At Sulphur, in the southwestern corner of the state, aresulphur mines that produce about one hundred tons ofsulphur a day. The sulphur, which lies in a bed severalhundred feet below the surface, is melted by superheatedsteam and brought up through a pipe. A hundred miles tothe east is a r
What to see in America . their way up the river saw there a red corn stalk with theheads of fish stuck on it as an offering to the spirits fromsuccessful hunters. Audubon, the naturalist, was born about 1780 on aplantation at INIandeville, twenty miles from New Orleanson the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. At Sulphur, in the southwestern corner of the state, aresulphur mines that produce about one hundred tons ofsulphur a day. The sulphur, which lies in a bed severalhundred feet below the surface, is melted by superheatedsteam and brought up through a pipe. A hundred miles tothe east is a remarkable deposit of rock salt on Petit Anse,a small island in a marsh near Vermilion Bay, ten milessouth of New Iberia. Brine salt was discovered here in1719, but the rock salt, which lies about sixteen feet belowthe surface, was not found until 1861. This was almostthe only source of salt supply for the Confederacy in thelater years of the Civil War. It is estimated that the depositconsists of over 2,000,000,000 lluLSEBOATS AT ViCKSBURG XXXIII Mississippi The first settlement in Mississippi was made at Biloxi onthe coast in 1699. The next year Fort llosahe, now Natchez,was settled. In 1729 the Indians conspired to expel theFrench from that region. They were roused to this effortby the tyranny of the commandant of Fort Rosalie, who hadordered them to give up their village called White day and an hour were appointed when all the French inthat part of the country were to be attacked 29, the fateful day, arrived, and, on some pretextor other, Indians called at every cabin of the white men,prepared to do their part in the massacre. Others swarmedinto the Fort, explaining that they were getting ready to goon a hunting expedition and wanted guns and powder. At agiven signal the Indians began their dreadful work. Thecommandant of the fort was one of the first killed, and his 296 Mississippi 297 head was carried to Chief Sun, who sat and smoked i
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