Author : B. M. Norman
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781506022185
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (221 download)
Book Synopsis Norman's New Orleans and Environs by : B. M. Norman
Download or read book Norman's New Orleans and Environs written by B. M. Norman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]territory. It is equally manifest that they were a race infinitely superior to the almost exterminated tribes which still remain. In the arts of what we term civilization, in the comforts and conveniences of social life, in the organization of society, in works of taste, in a knowledge of the principles, and an appreciation of the beauties of architecture, and in the application of the various mechanical powers requisite to the construction of buildings on a grand and magnificent scale, they may challenge comparison with some of the proudest nations of antiquity, in the old world. What has become of those mysterious nations, we are at a loss to conjecture; but their works remain, though in ruins, eternal monuments of their genius and power. As far as they have been explored, they afford ample evidence that the appellation "New World" is an entire misnomer. As the eloquent Mr. Wirt once said-"This is the old World," and the day may come, when the antiquarian will find as much that is attractive and interesting in the time hallowed ruins and the almost buried cities, of America, as those of Pompeii and[...]".