A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . to be seen. On thethird, slight signs of vegetation werevisible on a few of the hardier gradually became more generalas we approached the Mississippi ; butthen, .though our course lay almost duesouth, little change was apparent for aday or two. But after passing Mem-phis, in latitude thirty-five degrees, allnature became alive. The trees whichgrew on any little eminence, or whichdid not spring immediately from theswamp, wei-e covered with foliage; anda
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . to be seen. On thethird, slight signs of vegetation werevisible on a few of the hardier gradually became more generalas we approached the Mississippi ; butthen, .though our course lay almost duesouth, little change was apparent for aday or two. But after passing Mem-phis, in latitude thirty-five degrees, allnature became alive. The trees whichgrew on any little eminence, or whichdid not spring immediately from theswamp, wei-e covered with foliage; andat our woodiiig-times, when I rambledthrough the woods, there were a thou-sand shrubs already bursting into reaching the lower regions of theMississippi, all was brightness and ver-dure. Summer had already begun, andthe heat was even disagreeably intense. Shortly after enteiing Louisiana,the whole wildness of the Mississippidisappears. The l)anks are all culti-vated, and nothing was seen butplantations of sugar, cotton, and rice,with the houses of their owners, and the 462 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OP Rocky Bluffs on the Mississippi. little adjoining hamlets inhabited by theslaves. Here and there were orchardsof orange-trees, but these occurred tooseldom to have much influence on thelandscape. Rocky Bluffs.—In some parts thebanks of the Mississippi present an as-pect widely different from that of theprevailing scenery in this state. Atthat point especially which is represent-ed in the above engraving, the eye isstruck by bold outlines rising far abovethe ordinary level of the alluvion. Thethree rocky bluffs here seen standingside by side, at equal distances and ofnearly equal size, are terminated in smallhorizontal terraces, which seem to in-dicate that they are the remains of anancient high plain, elsewhere torn awayor sunk by some tremendous convulsionof nature. These eminences stand likecastles, fabricated by gigantic hands, orcut out of the living
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