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SOUTHERN WATTING PLACES FINALLY
BECOMING POPULAR -- BAY ST. LOUIS HIGH BLUFF DELIGHTFUL FOR SEA BREEZES — PASS CHRISTIAN SOMEWHAT SOPHISTICATED — MISSISSIPPI CITY BEST FISHING AND LADIES — MOBILE’S EASTERN SHORE MOST BEAUTIFUL August 21, 1851
Daily Delta - Saturday, August 30, 1851 - p 2 c b
LETTER FROM THE LAKE SHORE
Eastern Shore, Mobile Bay, Aug. 21, 18^1
Eds. Delta:—
I last vrote you from Mississippi City, tut not having received my letters or papers from town, I presume my letter to the city shared the same fate, so I concluded once more to try my luck from this location.
During the short time I have been from New Orleans I have been going on the high-pressure principle in the way of traveling. Here, there, and everywhere, at the same time, a specins of ubiquous animal —one night at hte Pass, another at Bay St. Louis again as if possessed of Aladdin's lamp, transported to Bi1n-ri T and now find myself comfortably situated here. Sleeping at Daphne, breakfasting at prppman's, and suppering at Point Clear: so I have taken the entire continent, by dating this epistle on the eastern shore.
Viatering Places Popular
All the watering places on	the	Gulf are more	numerously attended
this	summer than they have been	for	several years	past,	the principal
hotels being at all times crowded; and the inference drawn from this is very pleasing, because it appears that the citizens of the South are at length beginning to be aroused, and find that health, pleasure and recreation can be found nearer home than the yafpr1 ng..p1 ar.pR-In— thg_Ii£LLth, besides the many other advantages of being more economical, nearer to home and business, and able to keep up a daily communication with friends and acquaintances of the city, who are honorable members of the Can’t-get-away-Club.
Bay St. louis
Bay St. Louis is a strange looking glace, and in my opinion robbed New Orleans of its fairest proportion, by being bundled up in a heap, as if an earthquake had taken half of the New Orleans soil	and deumped it down there.	It	certainly has	more	earth than
a place of its size originally	bargained for, for	such	a ’’getting
up stairs" I never saw, to get to the mainland but I was fully repaid
for the trouble by being cooled with a delightful sea breeze, when
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