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 eat to wet, of near two hundred miles, and in length, from north to outh, of about three degrees.

From what is called the Walnut Hills (a short distance below the mouth of the Yazow river, which we have made our northern boundary) to Baton Rouge, about one hundred and fifty miles above New Orleans, in keeping the coure of the Miiippi, the hills, every ten or fifteen miles, recede from our view, affording extents of drowned country at the eaons of high water: and in many places, in more elevated ituations, large lakes, upplied with water from prings that burt forth at the bae of thee hills, by which they are kept cool and limpid throughout the ummer.

This interval between the river and high land, where there are no lakes, is generally grown over with the following trees and plants, viz. cupreus, populus, juglans pecan, quercus phellos, ambucus, fraxinus, acer rubrum, ac. glaucum, ac. negundo, everal pecies of iris, palmetto, everal pecies of amarillis and lilium, willow, and near the borders of the lakes and banks of the river, impenetrable brakes of the arundo gigantea.

At Baton Rouge, on both sides of the river, the face of the country aumes one uniform champaign appearance, the highet part of the earth being that directly on the banks of the river; so that when the river is welled by the pring floods beyond its banks, the water, which ecapes in this way, never gets back