Note 23 — Chapter XVI · Orange Groves and an Ancient Village—The Oldest Town and Fort in the United States—Northern Speculations.

This is a specimen of Spanish sanitary precautions, but those of Anglo-Saxon origin in the South were little better. Till within a very recent period, Southern physicians have held that it was unhealthy, in low latitudes, to pave the streets of a city, because the dust and sand were needed to absorb the unhealthy moisture! And to this day New Orleans is the only Southern city that can be said to be paved at all.