LETTERS FROM ALABAMA. 
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banks^ green and fertile — is a very great ornament 
and no less an advantage to the city ; for though 
it can scarcely be called a commercial town, a 
goodly array of shipping finds its way thither, and 
a rather dense forest of masts shoots up from the 
fair bosom of the Delaware. 
The men of science I found, as usual, kind and 
obliging ; the venerable Professor Nuttall was pro- 
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secuting his labours among the dried plants in the 
herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and 
the urbane Peale was as busy in the fine Museum 
which forms one of the chief attractions of the city. 
My most prominent idea was that of Wilson the 
ornithologist. Here was his residence ; here he kept 
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