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Among others in Motile, I saw G. R. of our city looking as fine as a "native to the place, and to the manor torn." Mobile, He jocosely remarked, is his watering place in suinmer. Hapny faculty, to imagine Mobile cooler and more pleasant than our own dear New Orleans.
Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay
Te&x At •+ o'clock in the afternoon, we left Mobile in the steamer Helen, Capt. Joe Armstrong, amidst the booming of heaven’s artillef^7~arid torrents of rain, and we landed here under circumstances not less unpleasant.
Today I have traveled considerable around and about, and I must acknowledge that this location has not been misrepresented to me. for a more beautiful country I n^ver saw—being extremely romantic, and possessed of every feature to make it one of the most desirable summer resorts this side of the moon.
Dinner bell is ringing. Goodbye.
YOU KNOW HHO
(The "Delta" of Thursday, Sept. U, 1851, p 1 col 6, continues a descriptive letter re Daphne and the Eastern Shore.)
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