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1	DESCRIBES TRIP ON SCHOONER FROM
NEW ORLEANS ALONG MISSISSIPPI SOUNI
—	FRESH WATER, BRICK YARDS, SAWMILLS, PITCH PINE AND TAR — CHOLERA'
1850 bx i$£±
Source: "Biographical Sketch of the Life and Ancestry
of Geo. Forman of Stratford-Ontario-Canada" including boating down Mississippi River.
See "Louisiana History - The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Assn." Summer 1977 Vol. XVIII, No. 3 p 3^0
Shipped on a schooner, in the new canal Basin, in rear of the City. Seven miles by canal to Lake Pontchartrain, by the side of which was the SheHa&oad, a Road passing through Cypjsj&sfi, Swamps and nj5.cademizcid*wiih*i'whitemmuscle_j5heJLLs'^ifuLl<P.,of^copperv bead^&^other- snakes'. These Cypress Swamps surround the city which is or was artificially made of raised ground.
The city cemetery was out on the Shell Road, and the tombs are above ground, corpses bricked in vaults, as the water will not allow the graves to be dug.
Went in this Schooner as a sailor across Lake Pontchartrain inside of Ship Island, with shores white as snow from shells glinting in the Sun.
Passed Beloxi Town (miss.,) up Bayou Coden (Ala.) 18 miles f to the P^Lqe^flods. Brickyards along the Shore with negro women working. Saw*Mills, etc. Mobile was further on.
At Bayou Coden & for miles was a dense Pitch Pine forest and no habitations.
All the drinking water there, and on the vessel and in the back part of New Orleans was rain water in Cisterns, in kegs in the sun on the vessel.
Slaves there helped us load the vessel with fty<rd'iafiR1 np anditaB—
Had some bathing in the Bayou but dangerous from Alligators of which there were plenty.
Sailed back on the Gulf of Mexico through RassasCiiristian and Lake Pontchartrain and Canal to New Canal Basin, New Orleans, and unloaded.
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