Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope was a very uninteresting reading. She took her children and traveled from London to Mississippi. During this reading it seemed to me that she was almost referring to Christopher Columbus and the Spaniards when then invaded and took over the land of the Indians, when Columbus thought that the world was completely flat. When she first arrived at New Orleans her comment was, “The shores of the water are so utterly flat.”

During the voyage in which Trollope traveled from London to Mississippi he passed through areas like Balize and New Orleans. She stated, “When we arrived there had been constant rain and of continuance, and this appearance was therefore, unusually striking giving to ‘this great natural feature’ the most unnatural appearance imaginable; and making evident not only that men had been busy, but that even the mightiest works of nature might be made to bear his impress; it recalled literally Swift’s mock heroic yet she was looking so mighty and so unsubdued all of the time that I could not help fancying she would someday take matters into their own hands again and if so farewell to New Orleans.” It reminded me of what happened to New Orleans a few years ago with hurricane Katrina and how people are still struggling to survive today.