[babelchat-help] Welch, William. CAPTAIN AARON HART'S COMPANY

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Nt from overflows for centuries. These slopes, from the banks back to
the swamps, usually ten to eighteen hundred yards, drain off
the waters and form the tillable lands of the sugar and cotton planters. They are protected
from overflows by levees thrown up on
the banks of the river. These plantation lands formed the only ground in this country for the encampment of a large army,
or available for a march on New Orleans. On nearly all the large sugar plantations
canals we