Mark Twain,
Life on the Mississippi — Chapter 40
(1883)
“ What, warder, ho! the man that can blow so complacent a blast as that, probably blows it from a castle.From Baton Rouge to New Orleans, the great sugar plantations border both sides of the river all the way, and stretch their league-wide levels back to the dim forest-walls of bearded cypress in the rear. Shores lonely no longer. Plenty of dwellings all the way, on both banks--standing so close together, for long distances, that the broad river lying between the two rows, becomes a sort of spacious street. A most home-like and happy-looking region. ”
