. 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 . y ofthis generation. Forty years ago the Legislature of Louisiana, at the suggestionof a distinguished engineer, memorialized Congress on the subject of a canal toconnect the Mississippi river with the Gulf, leaving the stream a few miles belowFort St. Philip and entering the Gulf about four miles south of the island LeBreton. Numerous commer
. 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 . y ofthis generation. Forty years ago the Legislature of Louisiana, at the suggestionof a distinguished engineer, memorialized Congress on the subject of a canal toconnect the Mississippi river with the Gulf, leaving the stream a few miles belowFort St. Philip and entering the Gulf about four miles south of the island LeBreton. Numerous have endorsed it since that would give, by means of a system of locks, a channel which would never besubject to the evils now disfiguring the passes at the rivers mouth, and wouldcommunicate directly with deep water. The estimated cost of the work is abouteight millions of dollars. It is a national commercial necessity, and should beundertaken by the Government at once. New Orleans would more than quad-ruple her transportation facilities by means of this canal, not only with regard toLiverpool, Bremen, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Southampton, Havre, andGlasgow but to New York and Philadelphia, Havana, Lima, and A Nickel fur Dad(J> VII. THE INDUSTRIES OF LOUISIANA — A SUGAR TECHE COUNTRY. THE main industries of Louisiana at the present time are the growth ofcotton, the production of sugar, rice, and wheat,— agriculture in general,—and cattle raising. The culture of the soil certainly offers inducements of themost astonishing character, and the immigrant who purchases a small tract—five to ten acres—of land can, during the first year of possession, make itsupport himself and his numerous family, and can also raise cotton enough onit to return the purchase money. Vergennes, in his memoir on La Loiiisiane, printed early in this century,says: I will again repeat what I have already many times said — that Louis-iana
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