In attempting a description of this magnificent emporium of commerce, as it exists at the present day, I will briefly allude to its early history, commencing with the great "drain" of the western world, which is destined to bear upon its turbid bosom half the commerce of the American Union.
"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"
Albert James Pickett
Sir Emerson Tennent, after describing the charming first view of the place when he landed here, says: Galle is by far the most venerable emporium of foreign trade now existing in the universe; it was the resort of merchant ships at the earliest dawn of commerce.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
He also conducted the emporium of Arts and Sciences in that city.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler