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The Journal, of Mississippi History
To Mississippi City by the rout[e] travelled is eighteen miles. There are only two houses of entertainment here. Stopped and fed at Barnes?[s] .... There is a very small settlement here, & I was soon satisfied that this was not an eligible place to remain at. Proceeded in the afternoon, passing through a small group of houses called Buena Vista near the Baluxi River, on which there are several Steam saw mills (which affords the sawdust which has been freely used on some causewayed portions of the road leading to Mississippi City, [and] which renders it very compact and smooth). Arrived at Baluxi ....
Friday 27 August 1852. Rode in the morning .... north 2 miles to Back Bay (or the extension of the Bay of Baluxi). Found a Steam ferry boat running across where it seems to be a mile in width. The extensive brickyard of Mr. Kendall, where brick are made on a very extensive scale from dry compressed earth by Steam power, was in view on the opposite side, about two miles distant. A number of small craft was in the bay & several along the shore undergoing repairs. Several Steam mills, which are very numerous on the bay for sawing the pine timber, were also in view ....
Saturday 28 August 1852 .... The neighborhood of Buena Vista seems quite thickly settled, being near Back Bay (or Baluxi) on which ihere are a number of Steam saw mills & a great number of persons engaged in the Lumber business. Saw quite a large rice field on the road where they were engaged in harvesting the rice (which seems very good). All along the streams that I crossed or passed along (Barnard?s bayou, Big & Little Baluxi) are filled with Pine logs cut and rolled into them to be floated down to the mills by the freshets. Some large herds of Cattle [are] in the neighborhood, but few are seen on the road. The summer pasturage [is] very fine, & [there is] - green grass enough also on the creeks to sustain them in winter. Little else but longleaf pine [is] to be seen, & the country is almost uninhabited ....
Sunday 29 August 1852 .... A[u]gusta, County Seat of Perry, contains only 7 families. Has 1 Church, 1 School, Post Office & US Land Office ....
Tuesday SI August 1852 .... Passing 12 miles through pine forests without a house, reached Williamsburg, Covington Coun-