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ENGLISH LOOKOUT ON PEARL RIVER
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ISLAND, LOUISIANA, BEING ON WEST SIDE OF PEARL RIVER WITH HANCOCK COUNTY, KISS., ON EAST SIDE BANK OF PEARL RIVER --POPULAR HUNTING AND FISHING AREA IN
1886
ENGLISH LOOKOUT, LA.
Louisville & Nashville R. R.
English Lookout, La. 1886
Few of the tourists or travelers, whose journeyings northward of southvard happen to lead them over the sea marsh of Louisiana, lying along the railroad route from New Orleans to Nobile, vould imagine that this region had an interesting history.
One seeing the vhite sails of lumber schooners and little fishing smacks dreamily drifting about the vaters of Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne would scarcely realize the fact that the tapering tall masts and swelling canvas of war fleets were once seen far away in the outer offing; and that the grass-grown wastes and winding bayous ever trembled with the roar and rumble of cannon,
Wildlife
The average hunter from other sections would think, too, that the region was wholly given up to the alligators, the herons, and the marsh-hens, and would scout the idea that it was one of the favorite winter haunts and homes of the lordly canvas-back, the luscious mallard, the swift-flying, green-winged teal, and every other variety of migratory duck.
He would scarcely believe the great Audubon himself, if he read that eminent naturalist's words saying that the fleet American deer frequented such pastures, and that every fall the gallant Cervus Virginianus rubbed the summer velvet off his horns against the boughs and stems of the mangrove bushes; or he would laug h at the statement that the banks of its bayous and the brinks of its lotus-fringed ponds were the home of the rich-furred otter.
Yet both the local historian and the Louisiana hunter know that the above statements are strictly true. English Lookout is now (1886) a celebrated field headquarters for Southern sportsmen, and more particularly for the devotees of the rod and reel.