All the western states and territories . Smith-Eastern vicio vf Jackson Square, New Orleans. The Cathedriil, with its spiivs, appears in the central part, the Statue of Gen. Jackson within thesquare in front. Tlie Court buiUiings on eitlier siile. Rivers, and 2,000 from St. Anthonys Falls, in Lat. 29° 57 30 N., Loa. 90°W. IVom Greenwich. The city is built around the river, which here formsa curve somewhat in the form of a crescent, from which circumstance it is. View on the Levee at New Orleans. often called the Crescent Cifi/. The Mississippi, opposite New Orleans, ishalf a mile wide, and 100
All the western states and territories . Smith-Eastern vicio vf Jackson Square, New Orleans. The Cathedriil, with its spiivs, appears in the central part, the Statue of Gen. Jackson within thesquare in front. Tlie Court buiUiings on eitlier siile. Rivers, and 2,000 from St. Anthonys Falls, in Lat. 29° 57 30 N., Loa. 90°W. IVom Greenwich. The city is built around the river, which here formsa curve somewhat in the form of a crescent, from which circumstance it is. View on the Levee at New Orleans. often called the Crescent Cifi/. The Mississippi, opposite New Orleans, ishalf a mile wide, and 100 to 160 feet deep, and continues depth to nearthe Gulf, where there are bars having only 13 to 16 feet of water. The lo-cation is on a piece of land which inclines gently from the river to the marshygrounds in the rear. At high water it is from three to nine feet below the LOUISIANA. 603 water surface. To protect the country against inundations, an embankment, orlevee, fifteen feet wide and six feet high, has been raised, extending 120 milesabove, and 43 below the city to Fort Plaquemine.
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