. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . by n)ules. The city is dividedinto drainage districts, in each ofwhich large pumping machines areconstantly worked to keep down theencroaching water. Were it notfor the canals and the drainage system, the low-lying city would, after aheavy rain, be partially submerged. A fine levee extends for four and a-halfmiles along the front of Lake Pont
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . by n)ules. The city is dividedinto drainage districts, in each ofwhich large pumping machines areconstantly worked to keep down theencroaching water. Were it notfor the canals and the drainage system, the low-lying city would, after aheavy rain, be partially submerged. A fine levee extends for four and a-halfmiles along the front of Lake Pontchartrain, making a grand driveway; and as acomplement to this improvement, it is expected that in a few years the cypressswamps will be filled up, and the lake front will be studded with building of this levee was an imperative necessity, the action of the lakemaking the perfecting of the citys present system of drainage impossible other-wise. On Sundays the shell road leading northward from Canal street past theMetairie and Oakland Parks, by the side of the New Basin, is crowded withteams, and the restaurants, half hidden by foliage, echo to boisterous merri-ment. But on a week day it is almost deserted. Schooners on the canal glide. The St. Charles Hotel —New Orleans. [Page 6i.] 6o ON LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN.
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