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MKXICAN GULF COAST ILLU8TKATKD.
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3f fertilizers, quantities of ms and also writer by Mr. ros. planted : of fertilizer total, eleven lety dollars.
Mr. J. T. Riddle, a short distance north, is the largest strawberry grower in that section. 'With him the season extends from March (and sometimes earlier) until June.
Dr. L. H. Hill, resident physician, has a fine location on the beach, and is improving and beautifying it with excellent taste and judgment.
PASS CHRISTIAN.
The next point westward on the Coast patronized as a health aud pleasure resort, summer and winter, is Pass Christian, called by its citizens and southern visitors “the Pass.” It is highly and justly popular. Wealthy and fashionable people from New Orleans, and elsewhere, make up, in large measure, the usual summer contingent of its population. During the winter season it is liberally patronized by people from the Northern States, who seek winter quarters on the Sound. It is situated like the rest, on a peninsula. The town extends six miles along the sea-front, which forms its southern boundary. On the north are the bayous Bois d’Ore and Portage, so named by early French settlers (according to the early chroniclers), because the foliage of the forests on the banks of the former in autumn were bright with crimson and gold, hence the name which signifies “gilded woods.” In the other case the bayou, some ten miles from “the Pass,” takes a southward course by which it approaches within a mile of the sea. So near is it that the Indians, in bartering with the French at Old Biloxi, carried their canoes, provisions and furs across this narrow neck of land, thus saving twenty miles or more in reaching their destination.
Pass Christian has its “East End ” and “ West End.” Its residences and villas are situated ou ample, ornamented grounds. It has a number of fine drives. Its main drive is a broad shell-paved avenue extending along the beach for several miles, shaded with fine live oaks, magnolias, and other fine trees. The water view is superb, stretching away far into the gulf, with Cat Island a few points westward. Near the shore the water is lined with promenades. The impression created by the almost perennial verdure is one of continual summer. The balmy atmosphere burdened with the perfume of flowers, the genial breeze from the tropic islands wafted over the gulf, all lend to make this an ideal winter resort.
The Sound is lined with promenade piers, pagodas and bath houses. Trim and symmetrical sailing crafts lying among the pier-lieads, or borne by white wings over the glistening waters of the Sound, speak for the tastes of the class for whose Enjoyment these appointments were provided.