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Believe Pearlington is Better Location
To digress a little, however, we do not think that Elipaw is the most favorable point on the marine borders of Mississippi for the foundation of her commercial metropolis. That Island is the nursery of mosquitoes; it is so low as to be flooded at every gale, affording no harbor whatever for shipping, and it is a lfecality where we may expect malignant fevers to prevail when settled by a dense population, embedded as it is among the brackish waters of the Lake and the Pearl River.
Daniels' Plantation on the main land, opposite Elipaw. and indeed Pearlington itself, a town already established a little above, both offer scites of superior eligibility, greater salubrity, better harbors, and many other advantages.
The expensive labor of ditching and raising levees may perhaps protect the inhabitants of the embryo city of Elipaw from danger of drowning?imperfect harbors, affording perhaps a slight protection to shipping in weather not too tempestuous, might be constructed at a vast expense--but nothing in our opinion could shield its fated population from the scourge of periodical yellow fever or plague.
Summer Is Time for Trips Over the Lake
In reference to trips over the Lakes--this is the season of relaxation everywhere, and should be so peculiarly in New Orleans. Here the whole business of the year, by circumstances, is forced into the winter months. The citizens of New Orleans above all others, are distinguished by a devoted and untiring application to their affairs, and if we may not here set apart a little time and a little money for amusement in the summer, we know not where a claim for recreation and amusement may be advanced.
The fare on board the steam boats is not extravagant, the accommodations extremely good, the passages healthful and agreeable, and a few days or a few weeks residence at the public houses right comfortable and pleasurable.
The accommodations do not equal the sumptuousness and luxury of city hotels, but this difference is more than com ensated by fish fresh from the waters, oysters in abundance, and milk and fruit without "stay or hindrance."
Dauphin Island Recommended
In reference to the entertainments of the lakes, again all other sites along the shores between this city and Mobile are far surpassed by that of Dauphin Island at the foot of the Bay of Mobile.
That island is about I1*'miles in length by a breadth of about a mile and a half 3 or miles in extent of which is ric.fci woodland, from whose luxurious soil springs in great abundance the orange, lemon and fig tree, the mp.gnolia gr.^ndiflora, sweet bay, and a vast variety of vild f i owers, ol-nts and forest trees.