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Rh various and offices connected with the. The also contains the  , a   , a chamber of  , a  , and an. The round huts of Guet N’dar are mainly inhabited by. N’dar Toute consists of with, and is frequented as a. There is a pleasant  in the, and the neighbourhood is rendered attractive by alleys of. As there are no natural s on the, and the at the north side of the  gives only brackish , StLouis used to be dependent on - and  (and except during the  the  in the lower part of  is ); but in  1,600,000  were appropriated to the  of a  at a height of 300  above the , 7  from the. The of the  being closed by a  of  with extremely shifting entrances for small, the  of the great an  do not come up to StLouis, and passengers, in order to meet them, are obliged to proceed by  to , on the other side of. Ordinary have often to wait outside or inside the  for  or  and partial unloading is often necessary. It is proposed to a  opposite Guet N’dar. The of StLouis was 15,980 in  and 18,924 in. Though founded in, the did not receive a   till August. See.  ST LOUIS, a of the, chief of the  of, is situated on the west  of the  , 20  below its confluence with the   and 200  above the influx of the , in 38°38′ 3″·6N. and 90°12′ 17″W. It is distant by about 1200  from, and 729 from  at the head of  on the , and occupies a position near the centre of the great basin through which the mingled  of the  and  and their extensive system of  is carried to the. The site embraces a series of undulations extending westwards with a general direction nearly parallel to, which at this point makes a wide curve to the east. The extreme length in a straight is 17, the greatest width 6·60 , the length of  front 19·15 , and the  (including considerable territory at present an in character) 62. The of the   above the  of the  is 428, that of the highest point of ground in the  above the  is 203 ; the extreme  mark above the  is 7  7 , and the extreme  mark below the same is 33  9. The site of the  prevents any serious interruption of  by, even in s of unusual.

The plan of the is rectilinear, the ground being laid out in blocks about 300 , with the general direction of   north-south and east-west. The or  front is known as the Levee or Front, the next  west is Main , and the next Second, and thence the s going north-south are, with few exceptions, in  order (Third, Fourth, &c.). Fifth has recently been d Broadway. The east-west s bear regular s (,, , , and the like). Market is regarded as the middle of the, and the numbering on the intersecting s commences at that , north and south respectively. One hundred numbers are allotted to each block, and the blocks follow in  order. The total length of s in StLouis is 316, of unpaved s and  427, total 743. In the central s, subject to heavy, the is of  blocks; , , and  blocks and  s are also used. There are nearly 300 of ized s, including the s in the new limits. The length of alleys is about 66. The has an extensive  (total length 223 ), and, owing to the  of the  and  districts above the, the  is admirable. The largest, Mill (20  wide and 15  high), runs through the middle of the , from west to east, following the course of a  that existed in earlier days. The is derived from the ; the  is ed into settling basins at Bissell’s Point, and thence into the distributing s, the surplus flowing to the storage  on Compton, which has a capacity of 60,000,000 s. The length of - is nearly 250 ; the capacity of the low-service s which  the  into the settling basins is 56,000,000 s in twenty-four s, and that of the high-service s which supply the distributing system 70,000,000 s. The average  consumption in twenty-four s is nearly 28,000,000 s. The , which are  by the , cost over 6,000,000. Among the more