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^he hotel? in t-"o*cil e sre on a most extensive and su-'-Dtuous scale, scarcely surpassed by any of them in Key York, Boston or 7hi la del phi a .
Population of the town may now be taken at 30,000, of vhich number not more than one-half are whites, the remainder being slaves.
1'ofcils is a olace of great commercial activity, being, rter New Orleans, the most important American seaport on the Tull . f Kexico.
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Cot tun is a ?-.ajor export.
It also ships a great deal that ir .^"own in the southeastern section of >? ississiooi, a small portion of that Ttate abutting contiguous to Alabama upon the Gulf but possessing no seaport town of any importance of its own.
The produce of V.'estern and "orthern 1'ississippi , hov:aver, as -?ell as that of Northern Alabama, fin^s its ???ay to the ocean through Few Orleans, that city bein? mov,e accessible to these portions of the two states than Fofci1e.
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7gv ve?'sls of any size s?'orosch nearer to "otil
Zarses carry cotton, etc. , tr them.
As ;r-ny ??= 30 to 60 vs^?c?V- 1at -nchor in the Bay,
Another anchorage is fu?tsr clown the Bay.
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;.;y ' \:nt m.? ?'oun^, T.-?ke "or'rn; to :;ntchartrain to a vide jat^y ; --C ct ir.s far into the Lake, lit 5 miles from ?ev Orl~-ns.
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