LETTEES EEOM ALABAMA. 
LETTER I. 
Mobile^ May 15^ 18 — . 
Your desire to have some inforiiiatlon of the 
country in which the good providence of God has 
for the present allotted my residence, shall be grati- 
fied so far as my opportunities of observation will 
admit. I shall communicate it more readily, be- 
cause from the very hasty and imperfect notion I 
have yet formed, I think it probable that scenes, 
circumstances, and manners, differ widely from 
those to which you and I have been accustomed. 
As a preliminary, however, it may not be alto- 
gether uninteresting to give a slight sketch of the 
voyage from Philadelphia. A sea-voyage, under 
the best circumstances, can scarcely be other than 
tedious. Even when performed in a stately and 
commodious vessel, with a skilful, gentlemanly, 
and obliging commander, a disciplined crew, and 
agreeable fellow-passengers, the wearied eye wan- 
ders from sea to sky, and from sky to sea, in a vain 
search for some object to break the dreary uni- 
formity : to-day is like yesterday, and to-morrow 
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