LOUISIANA.
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TABLE OF THE PARISHES AND SEATS OF JUSTICE.— Continued.
Western District.
Parishes.
Pop. 1830.
Seats of Juslice>
Dist. from
N. Orleans.
Avovelles
m
3,488
Marksville
240
Catahoula
nm
2,576
Harrisonburg
251
Claiborne
1,764
Russelville
441
Lafayette
s
5,606
Vermilionville
192
me
7,926
Natchitoches
354
Rapides
m
7,559
Alexandria
272
St. Landry
sic
12,552
Opelousas
192
St. Martin’s
8
7,204
St. Martinsville
176
St. Mary’s
s
0,442
Franklin
141
Washita
11
5,140
Monroe
323
10 Total of West. Dist.
60,257
Population. Slaves.
Eastern District.21.155,318.80,421
Western District.10.60,257.29,210
31 Counties - -
Population at different Periods•
Population.
Slaves.
In 1810, 76,556 34,660
1820, 153,407 Increase from 1810 to 1820, 76,851 69,064
1830, 215,575 - 1820 1830, 62,168 109,631
Population of New-Orleans, in 1802, about 10,000; in 1810, 17,242; in1820, 27,176 ; in 1830, 46,310.
Three quarters of the state are without an elevation, that can be Facc of thcproperly called a hill. The pine woods generally have a surface of country,a very particular character, rising into fine swells, with table sur- 5 1 'faces on the summit, and valleys from 30 to 40 feet deep. But they are with-out any particular range, and like the waves of a high and regular sea. Thealluvial soil is level, and the swamps, which are the only inundated alluvions,are dead flats. The vast prairies which constitute a large portion of the surfaceof the state, have, in a remarkable degree, all the distinctive aspects ofprairies. To the eye they seem as level as the still surface of a lake. Theyare, except the quaking prairies, higher and drier than the savannas of Flori-da . A range of hills commences in gentle elevations in Opelousas, risesgradually, and diverges towards the Sabine. In the vicinity of Natchitoches it preserves a distance intermediate between the Sabine and Red Rivers, andcontinues to increase in elevation to thc western parts of the state. Seen fromthe Pine Hills above Natchitoches , they have, in the distance, the blue outlineof a range of mountains. Another line of hills, not far from Alexandria,commences on the north side of Red River, and separating between the watersof that river and Dudgemony, unites with another line of hills, that bound thealluvions of the Washita, as bluffs, gradually diverging from that river, asthey pass beyond the western limits of the state. The new and remote parishtaken from Natchitoches , called Claiborne, or Allen’s Settlement, is a high androlling country.—There are considerable hills beyond the Mississippi alluvions,cast of that river. But, generally speaking, Louisiana is one immense plaindivided into pine woods, prairies, alluvions, swamps, and hickory and oaklands.