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Introduction:*
fJUlE COAST (as the term is understood in Mississippi and Louisiana) refers to that part of the northern line of the Gulf of Mexico, extending from Pearl River to Mobile.
Nature has been generous to this particular section of country. It is, truly, a highly favored region, not equaled in some respects by any other portion of the United States. Some of its attractions are set forth in the following pages. The writer has taken special pains to collect and collate the information presented. The greater part has been obtained from personal observation and individual inquiry; the remainder was gathered fiom trustworthy sources. Imagination has no place in this narration. The advantages and natural attractions of the Coast da not need the embellishments of “ Hue writing.” The Infinite Source of Life and I’ower has dowered it with gifts rich and priceless. Its delightful climate, equable teihperature, remarkable healthfulness, great diversity of products, excellent drinking water, proximity to the Gulf, wealth of sea-food/opportunities for boating, bathing, fliliing and hunting, are not generally known, else the whole eligible sea front along Mississippi Sound would long *ince have been occupied by a teeming population, and would have possessed a score or more of splendid Hotels and Sanitariums, equipped with all of the most modern approved appointments and appliances for the comfort and convenience of the most exacting guests.
It is too much the fashion of the times to boom unmeritorious and (not unfrequently) fraudulent schemes by extravagant and misleading descriptions—descriptions of worthless ventures clothed in the deceitful drapery of words. The deceptions employed by unscrupulous parties are the special aversion of the writer of these pages, and have no place in this recital. Plain, unvarnished, and indisputable facts^are given. If any one questions them, or is disposed to accept them with grains of allowance, an unbiased and fair investigation will dispel his skepticism; not only so, he will tind that the descriptions and statements given hardly equal the reality.
Any locality on the coast is but one to four hours ride by rail from New Orleans, the ,Metropolis of the South; and the same is true as to the distance to Mobile. The daily papers from these cities reach the coast towns in from one to three or four hours.	—
Those only who are dull of discernment or Influenced by prejudice can fail to see that this is among the most desirable sections of our highly favored land: a land in its entirety unmatched on the globe, and one unequaled in all that makes for the betterment of the human race; a lani which it would seem was designed and reserved by the Creator wherein man shall achieve his highest and grandest destiny.