barp

Updated: May 19, 2025

Upon the borders of the deserts there is a little village called Le Barp, where we spent the night of the twenty-second; from whence, till you arrive at a place called Belle-Vue, the country is exactly in that state which land assumes when nature has begun to lose ground, and art to gain it when the wild simplicity of the one is destroyed, and the rich luxuriance of the other has not yet been superinduced.

G. R. (George Robert) Gleig - The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815