3. Elizabeth Mons, Louisiana Office of State Climatology, E327 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105, private communication.
5. Liam Kennedy, Paul S. Ell, E. M. Crawford, and L. A. Clarkson, Mapping the Great Irish Famine, Four Courts Press, 1999.
6. Earl F. Niehaus, The Irish in New Orleans 1800 - 1860, Ayer Publishers, Inc., p. 23.
7. Edward R. Sullivan, Rambles and Scrambles in North and South America ( London , 1852), p. 216. See also Berger, The British Traveler, p. 168, as quoted by Neihaus, p. 49, Ref. 54.