"Immediately after breakfast we start in a carriage, with a good pair of horses, to visit some plantations farther up the bayou. The road is excellent, enclosed by neat fences, on which huge Turkey buzzards perch themselves; now and then passing through belts of wood, and pleasantly shaded, but generally between hedges of Cherokee rose in full bloom, beyond which the extensive plains of turned-up soil are dotted with Negroes planting cane. Every mile or so we pass . . . the house of a planter."Beyond Franklin, [Laurence] Oliphant's tour moved from lands that had originally been forest to south Louisiana's natural prairies, where he ended his westward travel.
from Daily Comet: Traveler visits site of poem
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