This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... PHYSICAL FEATURES, POPULATION, AND RESOURCES. The area of Louisiana is 45,420 square miles. The population in 1810 was 75,556; it was in 1890 1,118,587. The State is divided into fifty-nine parishes, the names of which are as follows: Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... PHYSICAL FEATURES, POPULATION, AND RESOURCES. The area of Louisiana is 45,420 square miles. The population in 1810 was 75,556; it was in 1890 1,118,587. The State is divided into fifty-nine parishes, the names of which are as follows: Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Cameron, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Franklin, Grant, Iberia, Iberville, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lafourche, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Orleans, Ouachita, Plaquemines, Pointe Couple, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Terrebonne, Union, Vermillion, Vernon, Washington, Webster, West Baton Rouge, West Carroll, West Feliciana, Winn. The chief cities, with their population in 1890, are: New Orleans, 242,039; Shreveport, 11,979; Baton Rouge, 10,478. Rivers and Streams.--Besides the three great rivers, the Mississippi, the Red and the Ouachiia, there are innumerable little lakes and over two hundred bayous; so that Louisiana doubtless has more water courses than any other State in the Union. Soil and Products.--The geological features of Louisiana are very simple. The three formations found in the State are the cretaceous or chalky, the tertiary, and the post-tertiary. It is said that the chalky formation underlies the whole State; it may be seen cropping out in the limestone hills of St. Landry and Winn. All the salt deposits are found in this formation. Above this comes the tertiary, which underlies the bluff lands; and on top of this is the post-tertiary, of which the rich alluvial lands of..
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