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I tell the story of the watershed of the Ohio as well as I can how it was the delta of a great river, fed by the surfage of a continent lying south eastwardly in the Atlantic; of the luxuriant vegetation that sprang up as in the cypress-swamps of her old home in Louisiana, passing, layer by layer, into peat, to be baked and pressed into bituminous coal, that slops over the flared edges of the basin in Pennsylvania, like sugar in the kettles, and is then burnt to anthracite.
Hamil said, "Yes yes, of course," and smiled meaninglessly at Wayward. For a fraction of a second his aunt hesitated, then said: "Garry is naturally among the devoted when he's not dog-tired from a day in the cypress-swamps. Have you been out to see the work, James? Oh, you should go; everybody goes; it's one of the things to do here.
I spent most of my time in rambling through the fields and along the Levee boating upon the river fishing in the bayous hunting through the cane-breaks and cypress-swamps, and occasionally killing time at a game of billiards, for every Louisiana village has its billiard salon. The society of Reigart, whom I now called friend, I enjoyed when his professional engagements permitted.
But the inundation was visibly decreasing; with the passing of each hour more and more green patches and points had been showing themselves: by degrees the course of the bayou had become defined two parallel winding lines of dwarf-timber and bushy shrubs traversing the water toward the distant cypress-swamps.
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