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PASr CHRISTIAN
First'-^ PassChristian, the nej consequently the most accessible and desirable for who cannot leave the city for any length of time.
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Here you can get splendid eccormodations at the elegant house of our friend l^fiffom^ry- -successor i53&£E^;c4--here, too, you have a tolerable
fig’a pnd oysters, though it is a long stretch of
There are a goafi-manfc<; ?.nd villas here, and many staid and solemn oeoule, who are perfectly satisfied to sit in their balconies, to smoke their Victorias, curse their ametites, and play out in their imaginations numerous little fishing oarties.
Boat excursions, lovely storms, snow-capped billows, boats capsized, bold swimming, sharks pursuing, sa: and--but for the tragic sequel drives the imagination off into other spheres, and the approaching season vith all its uncertainties--its cotton, sugar and breadstuff operations--the next steamer's news—the crops, the cotton worm, potato rot, etc., compose the staple of our city denizen's reflections as he looks out upon the ocean from his villa's balcony and views the broad sea, a fit problem of the uncertainties of trade and commerce.
But the general charrcter of the Pass is vivacity and jollity.
There is in the bold and vide stretch of the Gulf along here, something vhich excites the imagination, and animates the spirits, and our peonle when they get to the Pass usually lay aside horoe-gravity and
and give sense.
way to mirth and joy, unrestrained
steadiness, save by propriety and good
louis
TTe leave the Pass vith three huzzas from the jolly boys in red flannel, cotton checks and Fonterey beavers, and wend our vay to the Eay of St. Louis.
This is a beautiful place where the country around well cultivated, ^ of all the conveniences and pleasures both of country.
the land is high and well timbered, rds, and an abundance
:he sea-side and back
It is generally resorted It would frighten old Falthus of children at the Eay of St. beautiful or exhilirating that trot along the beach on the soft grass beneath
to by families, and such fr-milies too I out of ten years' growth to see the numbei Louis! To us there can be no more sight than that of the swarms of little ones and dabble in the surf of the sea, and roll the shady live oaks and China trees at this
time-honored old retreat of Bay of St. Louis.
To our ancient or creole population, this has ever b; attractive and ■oonular resort.
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