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    Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.
    Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.
    Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.
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    Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.

    By Mark Twain

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.
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    Mark Twain

    Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein are members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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      Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. - Mark Twain

      LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, Part 9., By Mark Twain

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      by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

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      Title: Life On The Mississippi, Part 9.

      Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      Release Date: July 10, 2004 [EBook #8479]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, PART 9. ***

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      LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, Part 9.

      BY MARK TWAIN

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Chapter 41

      The Metropolis of the South

      THE approaches to New Orleans were familiar; general aspects were unchanged. When one goes flying through London along a railway propped in the air on tall arches, he may inspect miles of upper bedrooms through the open windows, but the lower half of the houses is under his level and out of sight. Similarly, in high-river stage, in the New Orleans region, the water is up to the top of the enclosing levee-rim, the flat country behind it lies low—representing the bottom of a dish—and as the boat swims along, high on the flood, one looks down upon the houses and into the upper windows. There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

      The old brick salt-warehouses clustered at the upper end of the city looked as they had always looked; warehouses which had had a kind of Aladdin's lamp experience, however, since I had seen them; for when the war broke out the proprietor went to bed one night leaving them packed with thousands of sacks of vulgar salt, worth a couple of dollars a sack, and got up in the morning and found his mountain of salt turned into a mountain of gold, so to speak, so suddenly and to so dizzy a height had the war news sent up the price of the article.

      The vast reach of plank wharves remained unchanged, and there were as many ships as ever: but the long array of steamboats had vanished; not altogether, of course, but not much of it was left.

      The city itself had not changed—to the eye. It had greatly increased in spread and population, but the look of the town was not altered. The dust, waste-paper-littered, was still deep in the streets; the deep, trough-like gutters alongside the curbstones were still half full of reposeful water with

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