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form the Lower part of the former [is] a Boarding 

 House of some Note, there are Two Miserable Look- 

 ing Churches; [and already the] I dare not say un- 

 attended but [I] think so — 



the Natchez's Hotel is a good House built on the 

 Spanish plan, i.e. with Large Piazas and Many Doors 

 and Windows — Well Kept by M^" John Garnier and is 

 the rendez vous of all Gentile Travellers and Boarders 

 — Several Large tavern which I did not Visit furnish 

 Amply the Wants of the Strangers that at all times 

 abound from [all] different parts of the Union — this 

 place now Contain about 2000 — inhabitants and 

 Houses, has a Bank in good Credit — a Post Office 

 receiving the Diferent Mails Thrice per Week, a 

 Public reading Room and 2 printing offices — 



the Naturalist will immediatly remark the general 

 Mildness of the temperature on seeing at this season 

 the [Vegitation in] premature Growth of Lettuces, 

 Radishes and other vegetables that in our Eastern 

 Latitudes are Carefully nursed in April and some- 

 times in May — 



the Pewee fly Catcher, the Notable Mocking Bird, 

 constant residents [often] assure him that if frosts are 

 few they must be of short duration, and the Number- 

 less prostrated Carrion Crows in the less frequented 

 Streets [and Yards] prove to him the unhalhiness of 

 the atmosphere — those certainly may be considered as 

 necessary Evils, for no Birds are more disagreable at 



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