Excerpt from The Picayune's Guide to New Orleans It may be roughly stated that streets running across town are at right angles to the river, and those running up and down town are parallel to the river.' As the river sweeps past the city in a great double curve, it results that most Of the cross streets in the part of the city above Canal street converge from the levee toward a common center near the Canal street cemeteries, while below the old city they radiate from the river towards the woods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.