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DESCRIBED IN 1352
DeBov's Review" - November 1859 - Vol. 27 - p. 5cl+-8 Professor Trowbridge, U. S. Coast Purvey
The entrance to the Eay of St. louis is stout a mile and three quarters wide, and on	.shore	of the entrance is located
■^^considerable t own of Sft'i'e^3s;fco:rS^. containing i n^lfi52^a £ 0w H0CnmW8;tttapit.sereantly augmented by the influx ol* visitors auring the summer’''months from Mobile and New Orleans.
The Bay then expands into a considerable sheet of water, extending inland ^fcout 5 miles, and then widening also to 5 miles.
Into, it emn.ty.^.apy.streams. The exports from this Bav ini lumber,
0	al: Jam oun.t,e.d:TiTn^T8 52^t:o7;$lbO^$CT.‘:‘:>''	~
Within a small circuit of this Bay irifI#5^FeTe^§r§ in successfu 1 • operation	t” of lumber
are shipped annually.. .JE&is, with o^her articles of export, keeps in constant e^ployment'^CS^JSfeC^V'esse1 s of various si?es within an* aggregate of 1,100 tons.
The timber ad"" this region, as veil as alone, the entire Sound, j/^ is inexhaustible, and the facilities for pet tine it to market very great?
Contracts were made with the French Government through an agency established at Mobile for that purpose by which Y^TousancTI 'of ■^sjgf^r.bf all dimensions have been shipped from these forests to France for the ships of the French Navy.
No section of our coast presents greater advantages for trade in lumber than Mississippi Sound. The lumber is inexhaustible, readily obtained, and of the best quality. This trade is constantly on the increase. The bayous and streams extending into the very heart of the forest, present facilities for getting it to the mills, and the Sound affords a safe channel for towing the rafts to Mobile or the shipping.
The trade is constantly increasing and the settlements are augmenting proportionally.
The reminder of the Northern shore of the Sound from Shieldsboro to Malhereux on the entrance to Lake	Borgne,	consists of
extensive marshes, cut in all directions by lakes, bayous, lagoons, ponds, an-5 sloughs, turning and twisting in every conceivabledirection, in one pl^ce an area of 0 miles affording a shoreline of 87 miles.