That issue of the paper consisted of forty pages; seven columns to the page; two hundred and eighty columns in all; fifteen hundred words to the column; an aggregate of four hundred and twenty thousand words.

That is to say, not much short of three times as many words as there are in this book.
One may with sorrow contrast this with the architecture of New Orleans.
I have been speaking of public architecture only.

The domestic article in New Orleans is reproachless, notwithstanding it remains as it always was.

All the dwellings are of wood--in the American part of the town, I mean--and all have a comfortable look.

Those in the wealthy quarter are spacious; painted snow-white usually, and generally have wide verandas, or double-verandas, supported by ornamental columns.