This text was obtained via automated optical character recognition.
It has not been edited and may therefore contain several errors.

---

Offers the Tourist
15
Traveling south on 165 from Monroe, the tourist crosses the Ouachita river at Columbia, a picturesque site when viewed from the big hills on the west bank of the river. Several miles south of Columbia one passes through the oil fields of Urania and Tullos, and thence into Alexandria.
From Alexandria, No. 165 takes the tourist through Forest Hill, Glenmora, Oakdale, Kinder and several other smaller towns, thence into Lake Charles, where this route terminates. However, a pleasant trip for the tourist is to continue southward from Lake Charles on State Highway 211 to Grand Lake or southward on State Highway 104 from Sulphur, a few miles west of Lake Charles on U. S. State Highway No. 90. These routes take the tourist into the marsh lands of Cameron parish, where there is excellent fishing and duck and waterfowl hunting.
U. S. Highway No. 65.
Still another entrance from Arkansas for the tourist is U. S. Highway No. 65, a few miles north of Lake Providence on the Mississippi River. At Lake Providence are a number of resorts and picnic grounds along Swan Lake and Lake Providence, and there is also fresh water fishing.
From Lake Providence the tourist passes through Tallulah, Newellton, St. Joseph and Ferriday, thence across the Mississippi River from Vidalia to Natchez. Here No.
65	connects with U. S. No. 61, skirting the southwestern corner of the state of Mississippi and re-entering Louisiana in West Feliciana parish several miles north of St. Francisville.
This part of the route is known as the scenic highway, weaving as it does through the live oak clad hills of the bluff region which extends along the east bank of the Mississippi river. There are many points of beauty and historic interest in the St. Francisville area, and near here will be found some of the finest ante-bellum homes in Louisiana. A few miles east of St. Francisville, on Louisiana Highway No. 35 are Jackson, site of the East