A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . as 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 tliirty-five degrees, allnature became alive. The trees whichgrew on any little eminence, or whichdid not spring immediately from theswamp, were covered with foliage ; andat our wooding-times, when I rambledthrough the woods, there were a tho
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . as 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 tliirty-five degrees, allnature became alive. The trees whichgrew on any little eminence, or whichdid not spring immediately from theswamp, were covered with foliage ; andat our wooding-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-duje. Summer had already begun, andthe heat was even disagreeably intense. Shortly after entering Louisiana,the whole wildness of the Mississippidisappears. The banks are all culti-vated, and nothing was to be seen butplantations of sugar, cotton, and rice,with the houses of their owners, and the 462 DESCRIPTION OP THE STATE OF Rocky Bluffs cm 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.—Tn some parts thebanks of the Mississippi present an as-pect widely different from that of theprevailing scenery in tliis state. Atthat point especially whicli 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 rock, with sideslemarkably perpendicular, smooth, anduniform ; and th
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