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the Louisville ck flight of issippi City, nform one that Orleans.
ird of a mile ks °£
Our party, boarding the rooming mail train of
&	Nashville Railroad at Pass Christian, after a qui ^wroi-les, descended at the railroad station of Kisr, near vhich the black figures on a vhite mile-post i it is planted	70 miles	from Mobile and	71 from New
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From the	railroad	depot a ride of	about one-th
brings one out	to the	sea front under	the shady par
a name enjoyed	by one	of the sections	of the four-r-ile frontage of
Miss^^ipgiJ^ity.
Offshore Islands
The name is appropriate. There is a broad, unbroken, and blue stretch of the Gulf lying off to the south-eastward, and to the southward the	long line	of Cat Island,	vith the Innd	lying	"hull	down"
below the ten	miles of	intervening water, the dim tracery	of	its	pine
forest seeming	like a	distant bank of	blue smoke rr. ting	upon the
waves, and its	great white sand dune,	like a snow -oak,	looming
above the trees.
The island seems so old, so full of the.drea^ epoch in history, slumbering upon the couch of t waves, and canopied by its Indian summery curtai mist, that one instinctively reaches for a marine for the great white banner of the Bourbons, like t. floating above the crest of the sand dune, and the of the masts and spars of Iberville's fleet rising of the deep offing to the eastward. The sand dune monument to mark the neighboring site of the Firr-t planted on or near the Kississippi seacoast.
r sleep of another ■~ar-away blue dim purple ,:ass to look tiny speck, faint outline from the surface rises like a Truropean colony
Ship Island, where Iberville's expedition fir?t landed, is to the south-east of Mississippi City. Between Shi 'land Cat Island there is a deep and vide channel or pass enter:	.e	Mississippi
Sound from the Gulf.
Between the islands and the mainland that careful examination of the minute maps of the I’ Survey to lead to fl’WO.^eepJtiaxtLfiX^, or anchors: affording from	of	water,	is	aboxr
the town of	and	CaJ^Js-Iand.	Thi
largest class of s§,a^£oin&^.luffib.?r_vesg,els, who loads from the lumber depots of tfie"coast by li
-!nel is shown by i States Coast One of these,
C way bet ween .. now used by the ;re...receive their . • ? r s.
The other harbor is more remote from the s' ora of the mainland in the immediate tea^BX^Ship,-IslpP.d.. Both thcc. deep "roads" or anchorages is safely sheltered from the storms n-d waves of the Gulf by the protection of the islands under., whose Ip '-iey are placed,
Railroad To the Interior
To reach these pine harbors by railroad c interior is an object that has ardently been r
Sta?!HfbLrn^rP*lslng Klssl«ippi«ns and c '-‘t.aies oi our country.
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