 | Thomas Hamilton - 1833 - 414 pages
...begun, and the heat was even disagreeably intense. Shortly after entering Louisiana, the whole wildness of the Mississippi disappears. The banks are all cultivated,...myself at New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS. 201 CHAPTER V. NEW ORLEANS. I LANDED at New Orleans on the 22d of March. The day had heen one of heavy rain, and the... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1833 - 420 pages
...the little adjoining hamlets inhabited by the slaves. Here and there were orchards of orange trees, but these occurred too seldom to have much influence...the following evening I found myself at New Orleans. • CHAPTER XVII. NEW ORLEANS. I LANDED at New Orleans on the 22d of March. The day had been one of... | |
 | 1835 - 542 pages
...begun, and the heat was even disagreeably intense. Shortly after entering Louisiana, the whole wildness of the Mississippi disappears. The banks are all cultivated,...too seldom to have much influence on the landscape. [Kin and Manners in America.] SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART. Justice exacts, that those by whom we are most... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...the little adjoining hamlets inhabited by the slaves. Here and there were orchards of prange-trees, but these occurred too seldom to have much influence on the landscape MINIMUM DUTIES. By these duties are meant, such as are imposed on goods at a certain standard of cost,... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...be!0»n, and the heat was even disagreeably intense. Shortlv after entering Louisiana, the whole wilduess of the Mississippi disappears. The banks are all cultivated,...too seldom to have much influence on the landscape. — Men and Manner* in America. > • i • THE RIVER MISSOURI, IN NORTH AMERICA, THE Missouri is one... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1843 - 502 pages
...intense. Shortly after entering Louisiana, all the wildness of the Mississippi disappears. The banks are cultivated, and nothing was to be seen but plantations...the following evening I found myself at New Orleans. CHAPTER XVII. NEW ORLEANS. I LANDED at New Orleans on the evening of the 22d of March. The day had... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...begun, and the heat was even disagreeably intenso. Shortly qfter entering Louisiana, the whole wiiiincss of the Mississippi disappears. The banks are all cultivated,...too seldom to have much influence on the landscape MINIMUM DUTIES. By these duties are meant, such as are imposed on goods at a certain standard of cost,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1854 - 668 pages
...houses of their owners, and the DESCRIPTIOH Of THfi STATE OF ARKANSAS. Rocky Blaffc on the MusissippL little adjoining hamlets inhabited by the slaves....seldom to have much influence on the landscape.*' ROCKY BLUFFS.-— -In some parts the banks of the Mississippi present on as* pect widely different... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1858 - 678 pages
...be seen bnt plantations of sugar, cotton, and rice, with the houses of their owners, and the litte adjoining hamlets inhabited by the slaves. Here and...of orange-trees, but these occurred too seldom to b«e much influence on the landscape." We extract from Audoban a description of the Virginia squatter... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1866 - 698 pages
...be seen but plantations of sugar, cotton, and rice, with the houses of their owners, and the litte adjoining hamlets inhabited by the slaves. Here and...too seldom to have much influence on the landscape." We extract from Audoban a description of the Virginia squatter upon the banks of the lower Mississippi:... | |
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Summer had already begun, and the heat was even disagreeably intense. Shortly after entering Louisiana, the whole wildness of the Mississippi disappears. The banks are all cultivated, and nothing was to be seen but plantations of sugar, cotton, and rice,... 
