s in that neighborhood with sale water, and is surrounded by land sufficiently hard to admit of the passage of land forces on foot. Artillery and cavalry cannot pass except in a dry season.
The bomb fizet can operate here.
We next come to the mouths of the Mississippi, which must be too familiarly known to require description.
At Pass a L'Cutre, the principal entrance to the river, 18 feet may be carried over the bar; at Southeast Pass vessels drawing nine and ten feet may enter; at South Pass there is usually five feet of water on the bar, and at the South west Pass 14 feet. All the passes come together at the Head of the Passes, so called.
From this point upward the eastern shore of the river is sufficiently solid to allow an army to march.
Ten miles higher up is a bayou on the west side of the river, called the Jumps.
Vessels drawing six feet may be taken from the Guld, through West Bay, and this bayou, into the river at this point; but the ground in the neighborhood is no
