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PAGE 458 With the exception of New Orleans and Havana, there was no commercial mart on the Gulf of Mexico as thriving as Mobile, when I first visited the place, and I doubt if there could have been found on the face of the globe, a place with even five times its population, where crime, debauchery, and lawlessness of every description, reigned rampant to such a fearful extent.

The glowing description which was given me, of the gambling facilities of Mobile, and the immense amount of money in circu lation in that city, induced me to take a lake-boaf and' visit that place. With the exception of New Orleans and Havana, there was no commercial mart on the Gulf of Mexico as thriving as Mobile, when I first visited the place, .and I doubt if there could have been found on the face of the globe, a place with even five times its population, where crime, debauchery, and lawlessness of