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LETTERS FROM ALABAMA. 
broad leaves, probably one of the fan-palms, as 
well as some members of the plantain tribe [Musa). 
The south end of the island is high and preci- 
pitous ; and there is a very singular rock, which 
has a large vaulted perforation, like the arch of a 
bridge; this is called the Hole in the Wall, and 
as it is a very remarkable place, vessels generally 
THE HOLE IN THE -WALL. 
endeavour to make ” it, in entering this part of 
the Gulf of Mexico. While in sight of this land, 
two beautiful sloops of war passed us, beating out 
of the Channel, both of which displayed at the gaff 
end my own country’s flag, that ^‘meteor flag,” 
which has 
— braved a thousand years, 
The battle and the breeze.” 
