Mobile like every Southern city that I have seen has but little that is attractive in appearance, whatever it may be in reality. It's day of prosperity is past--at least I think so. In all my walks through it yesterday & this morning, I do not recollect having seen a single new house putting up. The wharves are tolerably good, the store houses large, but look both old & neglected. The private buildings are without taste, and have not even the only recommendation of the "Birmingham Warehouse,"--size--the pillars are the largest part of them. There is but one fine public building in the place--an Academy. The Port of Mobile is miserable--larger vessels than schooners & occasionally brigs [?] cannot get nearer the city than 30 miles, at which distance they have to discharge their cargoes by lighters.   

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