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NEW ORLEANS
"THE CRESCENT CITY"
By GRACE KING
Sail across the blue waters of the Gulf and
make your way up the mighty current of
the Mississippi, like the leisurely traveler of
yore, if you wish to approach New Orleans
in the proper way and spirit; unless—which
also furnishes a proper way and spirit—you
wind your way down the mighty current,
from some far northern starting-point. And
for guidance provide not yourself with an up-to-date
map of the United States, crisscrossed
with railroads, and speckled with illegibly
printed names of swarming towns. The pilot
chart of the steamboat is the true informant
here if you are not the fortunate possessor or
borrower of some old print of the last century,
one of those happy combinations of fact and
imagination issued by the ancient cartographer
