Life on the Mississippi, Part 9

Life on the Mississippi, Part 9

Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.THE approaches to New Orleans were familiar; general aspects were unchanged. When...
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Author: Twain, Mark,1835-1910
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 9

Life on the Mississippi, Part 9

Dhs. 49.93 Dhs. 24.95

Life on the Mississippi, Part 9

Dhs. 49.93 Dhs. 24.95
Author: Twain, Mark,1835-1910
Format: eBook
Language: English

Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.

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 lowrepresenting the bottom of a dishand 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. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 8479
Author: Twain, Mark
Release Date: Jul 10, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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