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The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter

CHAPTER VII
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Visited the town, and went a-shopping in company with M.Guerin.Found French manufactured clothing, &c., reasonably cheap.

In the afternoon strolled on the heights in rear of the town, and was charmed with the picturesque scenery on every hand.
The little valleys and nooks in which nestle the country houses are perfect pictures, and the abrupt and broken country presents delightful changes at every turn.

I saw but few signs of diligent cultivation.

The negro race is here, as everywhere else, an idle and thriftless one; and the purlieus of the town where they are congregated are dilapidated and squalid.

The statue of Josephine in the Savannah is a very fine specimen of sculpture.


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