Hotel, Exchange, (St. Charles,) 137 the Verandah, 141 St. Louis Exchange, 143 Hewlett's, ib. Planters', ib. National, ib. Hall of Second Municipality, 127 Hurricane devastates New Orleans 1723, 60 Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, article, 48 Iberville enters the Mississippi, 16 establishes the first settlement at Biloxi, ib. founds Natchez, 17 his death, ib. Improvement in New Orleans in 1824, 66 Incorporation of New Orleans in 1805, ib. Indian massacre of the whites at Natchez, 19 Indigo cultivated in 1728, 20 cultivation now much neglected, 55 Infirmary, Circus street, 124 Franklin, ib. Inquisition, its establishment frustrated in 1785, 25 Iron foundry, 150 Jefferson College, 43 Jesuits and Ursuline Nuns arrived in 1727, 60 expelled by Clement XIII., in 1763, 61 their property confiscated, ib. their immense wealth, ib. curious documents of them in archives of first municipality, ib. La Dames de la Providence, 114 Lafayette Square, 182 Lafourche, Bayou, 32 Lakes, inlets, and sounds, 37 La Salle descends the Mississippi to the Gulf, 14 builds a fort at the mouth of Little Miami, ib. sails for France, 15 goes into the bay of St. Bernard, ib. ascends the Colorado, ib. forms a settlement on St. Bernard's bay, ib. is murdered by Dehault, ib. his character and enterprise, ib. Law, John, the Scotch financier, 18 Learned professions, divinity, law, and medicine, 79 Le Moniteur, first paper published in New Orleans, 25 Levee, its extent, 31 crevasse in 1816 and 1844, 42 its appearance in the business season, 81 Cotton Press, 152 Literary Association, Young Men's, 167 Live oak of Attakapas, its abundance, 33 Louisiana, territory of, its discovery, 7 its boundaries, ib. transferred to Spain, 22 retransferred to France in 1803, 26 sold to the United States in 1803, ib. the State of, admitted to the union in 1812, 27 its boundaries, surface and soil, 28 its vast prairies, 30 its improvement in education, 43 College of, ib. mutton unsurpassed, 56 the climate of, 45 State Bank, 153 Medical College, 168 Luxuriance of the bottom lands, 34 Lyceum, Public School, 166 the People's, 167 Madder described, how cultivated, 51 price, duties, and demand for it, ib. Maison de Sante, 123 Male Orphan Asylum, 113 Manufactures, 150 Marine Hospital, United States, 125 Markets of New Orleans, 135 Market, Poydras street, 136 the Vegetable, ib. the Meat, ib. Market, St. Mary's, 137 Marquette descends the Mississippi, 13 Marshes, extensive near the ocean, 38 Masonic Fraternities, 80 Massacre at Natchez, 19 Meat Market, 136