<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Both great books.</div><div><br></div><div>the bayou, I believe, is pronounced with the initial A silent. "Choffalaya" roughly. Perhaps there's someone on the list from Louisiana that knows for certain?</div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On May 15, 2011, at 19:39, Spreck Rosekrans wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Also "Rising Tide" re the 1927 flood may be of interest.<br>
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Subject: [env-trinity] The Control of Nature: Atchafalaya : The New Yorker<br>
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Even though this isn't about the Trinity River, this is a fascinating read about what's going on with the Mississippi River. It's a chapter from John McPhee's book The Control of Nature about Atchafalaya (but how does one pronounce the word?).<br>
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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1987/02/23/1987_02_23_039_TNY_CARDS_000347146" target="_blank">http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1987/02/23/1987_02_23_039_TNY_CARDS_000347146</a> <br>
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