Williams, J. David · Boston, De Wolfe, Fiske & Company · leaf 58
, with the addition of a colonnade around the ground story. The levee is as hard and dry as the bank of the canal. The spring floods, raising the river from fifty to seventy feet — at low water the stream is com- paratively narrow, and on either side the banks are high and sandy — bring anxious… … Removing Snags by jjredging the spring of 1874, a considerable portion of the State of Louisiana was under water, owing to one of these crevasses, and thousands of persons were rendered homeless. The destruction of crops and farming utensils made a famine so imminent, that the people were compelled…
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