Louisiana Parishes

From the New Orleans Picayune: The parishes of Louisiana which border along the coast of the gulf of Mexico, from Rea river to the Sabine, and which are called sometimes the "seamarsh parishes," are nine in number. These sea-marshes remain as testimony to the interrupted operations of the MiBSisslppi river - Interrupted by the building of levees on the river's banks - which, before the age of civllization in Louiaiana, were slowly and year by year flllng up the marshes so as to convert them by ths deposits of the mud of the river in the solid ground of the continent, as the rest of the lowlands of Louisiana had been similarly transformed into terra firma. As a rule, with the exception of Orleans parish, in which is situated the city of New Orleans, the population of these parishes is small, being composed mainly of the planters who live upon the bank of the Mississippi and of the many bayous that intersect these parishes, together with ' ermen and hunters.