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A tra^n being in Nadines?, we started ror ftie city. The tract through which the raiIroad lec v?as ?? "1" t as -- bov?ling gr-ten but see^inrly saturated with v:ater.
The roa^ led straight through a dense growth of timber such as is found in most American svarnns, the cypress and cedar abounding on either side, with here ?and there some clur.os of palmettos intersoersed among them.
As ve -proceeded at the rate of ->bout 20 miles an hours, the tremulous ground seemed to quiver beneath our feet. The railway is short, hut its construction through such s mor^s rrui t have '-gen work of no little difficulty.
People of New Orlean s
As you walk the streets of New Orleans, French'Is ?the language chiefly spoken.
There are five distinct faees of Hev Orleans inhabitants:
Anglo-Americans - these are transitory who leave in the sum-French cvanish
African -	50-	of	which	l/6th are free
Indian
One fifth, o^ the population leave between July ^nd October. There is a great and exaggerated fear of fever.