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dollars each, and making the trip of one hundred and fifty miles 

 in twenty-one hours. If New Orleans appeared prostrated, 

 Mobile, seemed quite dead. We left in the afternoon for 

 Stockton, Alabama, forty-five miles distant, where we were 

 placed in a cart, and tumbled and tossed for one hundred and 

 sixty-five miles to Montgomery ; fare twenty-three dollars each, 

 miserable road and rascally fare. At Montgomery we took the 

 mail coach, and were much relieved ; fare to Columbus twenty- 

 six dollars each. Our travelKng companions were without 

 interest, the weather was suffocating, and the roads dirty and 

 very rough ; we made but three miles an hour for the whole 

 journey, walking up the hills, and galloping down them to 

 Augusta, and paying a fare of thirteen dollars and fifty cents 

 each, and thence by rail to Charleston for six dollars and 

 seventy-five cents each, distance one hundred and thirty- six 

 miles, and making eight and a half days from New Orleans." 



