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Title: 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
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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otton and the waving cane. =£LCALifOjv: FORESTS fin: ESTATES HEALTH 87 The forests in the parish of St. Martin, in the Teche vailey, contain millions of tall, straight cyprcss-trecs ; antl beyond are stretches of ash, gum, hickory,black walnut, magnolia, live, white and red oaks, linn, pecan, sycamore, andother trees. There are also here some grand estates, notably those of GeneralDeclouet, Mr. Lestrapes, and Dr. Wilkins. General Declouets mansion is a finetype of the old Creole house, with spacious halls and corridors, baronial dining-room, and portrait galleries from which look down the faces of a hundred ances-tors. Avenues, bordered with China-trees or with pines, lead up to it; whilemagnolias, fig-trees, and live oaks are scattered throughout the grounds. One finds superb forests everywhere in Louisiana. They are among thechief glories of the State. One may purchase, for an insignificant sum, a lovelynatural park, with trees in it which an English duke might covet for his estate.
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The oaks which stud the beautiful City Park, New Orleans. and the race-course grounds.City and country alike abound in the in New Orleans, are exceedingly fine,most delicious foliage. St. Marys parish formerly contained 170 sugar plantations, scattered alongthe banks of the Teche, the Atchafalaya, and the various bayous and water-ways in that section. In the same parish, 13,000 slaves were owned beforethe war, and more than lOO vessels plied between Franklin (a pretty,cultured town, twenty miles from Brashear) and various Northern and Southernports. The fertile lands readily yield a hog.shead of sugar to the acre, and 88 THE SALT REGION. the manufacture may begin early in November. Flooded rice-lands produceten barrels to the acre; unflooded, six. There are orange orchards in thisparish producing 3,000,000 of oranges annually. Such facts are eloquent. Lands in certain of the parishes, not very far from towns and trade centres,can be generally purchased at from $3 to $15 per acre ; tho

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