. The Street railway journal . r Mississippi Bay, by two narrow chan-nels. The city of Algiers is located opposite New Orleans,and skirts the river for a distance of about seventeen Orleans is about no miles from the Gulf of Mexico,and at this point the river is about 3,000 ft. wide, and hasa depth of from 90 to 208 ft., the current at high tidebeing very swift, and the extreme variation between highand low water being about sixteen feet. The tide pulsa-tions are about six inches at this point. The water isextremely muddy at all times, giving it a yellow colorwhich is the characteris
. The Street railway journal . r Mississippi Bay, by two narrow chan-nels. The city of Algiers is located opposite New Orleans,and skirts the river for a distance of about seventeen Orleans is about no miles from the Gulf of Mexico,and at this point the river is about 3,000 ft. wide, and hasa depth of from 90 to 208 ft., the current at high tidebeing very swift, and the extreme variation between highand low water being about sixteen feet. The tide pulsa-tions are about six inches at this point. The water isextremely muddy at all times, giving it a yellow colorwhich is the characteristic color of most Southern river is confined to its present channel by means oflevees on both sides, which extend a number of miles upthe river. On the river front, through the city, the leveesare supplemented by wide platforms, supported on piles,which provide wharfage and storage room for the immensequantities of cotton, sugar, rice and other products whichare here transferred from the river boats and railroads to. E PONTCHARTRAIN, NEW ORLEANS. seagoing vessels. A great number of vessels of all classesloading and unloading at the wharves present a pictur-esque scene, perhaps unequaled for variety at any otherport in the world. The level of the water in the river is at all times abovethe adjoining streets, the height varying from a few in-ches to fourteen feet. The surface of the city is almostflat, with a slope away from the river towards Lake Pont-chartrain. For a few hundred feet the fall from theriver is three or four inches to the 100 ft., but for theremaining distance it is only about one inch to the hun-dred, the lowest point being known as the basin, which isfrom sixteen to seventeen feet below high water. Westof the basin is Metarie Ridge, which runs parallel withthe lake, and which is about four feet higher than thebasin, so that it becomes necessary to pump the drainagewater over the ridge, from which it flows to the soil being an alluvial deposi
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