It is because of this that the highest ground in New Orleans, counter-intuitively, is along the riverfront, one of the only areas of town not to flood after Hurricane Katrina.
在新奥尔良这是沿岸最高的地带,也是唯一一个在卡特里娜过后地方没有被洪水侵蚀的地方。
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Their number and strength, their ebb and flood, their play and counter play and above all the laws of their nourishment remain quite unknown to us.