Transcription: On the arrival of a stranger in the Delaware, an incessant crash of dres meets his ear. But on our arrival at New Orleans in the morning, a sound more strange than any heard anywhere else in the world astonishes him. It is a more incessant, loud, rapid, and various gabble of tongues of all tones than was ever heard at Babel. It is more to be compared to the sounds that issue from an extensive marsh the residence of a million or two frogs from bullfrogs up to whistlers than to anything else. It proceeded from the market and levy opposite to which we had cast our anchor. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, ...
