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^he hotel? in T''obile pre on a most extensive and su^otuous scale, scarcely surpassed by any of the:1': in Key York, Boston or Philadelphia.
Population of the town may nov? be taken at 30,000, of vfnich number not more slaves.
than one-half are -whites, the remainder being
Vobile is a place of great commercial activity, being, rter New Orleans, the most important American seaport on the G-ull ? f Vp yico.
Cotton
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?'.9jor export.
It also shins a great deal that ir r*ov>n in the southeastern section of 1ississiopi, a small portion of that ^tate abutting contiguous to Alabama unon the Gulf but posressing no seaport town of anv importance of its own.
The produce of v.'estern and Northern Mississippi, hovever, as well ss that of Northern Alabama, finr?s its ????ay to the ocea throueh New Orleans, that city being mo"e accessible to these portions of the two states than Mobile.