Mechanics' and Traders' Bank, 153 Medical Science, 79 Medical College of Louisiana, 168 Merchants' Exchange, 161 Reading Room, ib. Meteorological Journal, an abstract from the, 72 Methodist Episcopal Church, 102 Mexican Gulf Rail-road, 193 Military strength of New Orleans in 1792, 64 Milne Orphan Asylum, 116 Minerals of Louisiana, 56 Mint, Branch of the United States, 88 Miro succeeds Galvez as governor, 25 carries the colonial system into effect, ib. Mississippi River discovered by De Soto, 10 River made free in 1795, 25 Valley, its vast extent, 83 boatmen, description of them, 74 immensity of its produce, 82-84 Delta of, 37 Moral character of New Orleans, 78 Moscoso's Adventures, 10 Mulberry trees prolific in Louisiana, 53 Municipal Hall, 127 Muskeet grass, excellent for cattle, 55 Mutton, 56 Natchez massacre of the whites, 19 tribe defeated, ib. founded by Iberville, 17 National Hotel, 143 Gallery of Paintings, 169 Natchitoches tobacco, very superior, 54 Nature of the soil of Louisiana, 29 New Orleans founded by Bienville in 1718, 59 a historical sketch of, 58 New Orleans, view of, 58 inundated and abandoned in 1719, 59 again occupied in 1722, ib. visited by a hurricane in 1723, 60 by yellow fever in 1769, 62 divided into wards and lighted in 1792, 64 fortified by Carondelet, ib. its military strength, ib. opened to the United States in 1795, 65 a port of entry and delivery in 1804, 66 incorporated in 1805, ib. its extent in 1810, ib. its appearance from various points, 69 lighted with gas in 1834, 70 state of its morals, 78 its commercial advantages, 81 its anticipated greatness, 84 Reading Rooms, 161-2 Police, 78 travelling routes, 201 Newspaper Press, 173 first published in 1794, 25 Olden Time, 184 Old Ursuline Convent, 103 Opelousas Prairie, 39 hospitality of the inhabitants, 40 Opposition to founding New Orleans, 59 Orange trees introduced, 20 destroyed by frost in 1748, ib. O'Reilly, the Spanish governor, 23 his tyrannical conduct, ib. succeeded by Unzoga, 24 Orleans Cotton Press, 152 Theatre, 176 Orphan Asylums, their excellence, 110 Paintings, National Gallery of, 169 individual collections of, 170 Paving of streets first began, 67 Pensacola taken by the French, 19 People's Lyceum, 167 Physic, Law and Divinity, their progress, 79 Pine woodlands, 30 Place d'Armes, 182 Planing Mill, steam, 151 Plaquemine, 32 Planters' Hotel, 143 Ponce de Leon, 9 Pontchartrain Rail-road, 192