It was evident that the whole delta had been formed by the deposits made in the course of ages.

Buried trees, and other forms of organic life, which have been disinterred from the banks of the river, as high, not only as New Orleans and Natchez, but to the mouth of the Ohio, show this.

It must be evident to every one who takes the trouble to examine the phenomena, that an arm of the gulf anciently extended to this point; and that the Ohio, the Arkansas, Red River, and other tributaries of the present day, as well as the main Mississippi, had at that epoch entered this ancient arm of the gulf.

I landed at the light-house at the Balize.
We had to walk on planks supported by stakes in the water.

A sea of waving grass rose above the liquid plain, and extended as far as the eye could reach.