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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
soil deprived of water, rebellious to cultivation, capable of sustaining only thick pine forests, and whose barrenness contrasts with the richness of the alluvial soil above which they emerge. But for this very reason they have been selected over which to lay out the road followed by the emigrants, whose heavy wagons had, above all, to avoid the sloughs of the alluvial ground. They separate the basin of the Red River from the streams which flow directly to the Gulf of Mexico—the Sabine, Calcasieu, and others of less importance. The part of the basin of the Red River comprised between the river and the downs is similar to the lower course of the Mississippi. Instead of having tributaries to swell their volume, these waters leave the main bed to feed channels of derivation, which, after having followed the same direction, open out in proportion as the downs are farther away from the Red River, and by the name of Bayou Cocadrie and Bayou Boeuf finally unite to form the Bayou Teche.