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161 As I intended to make no stay at Mobile, I did not use any of the letters of introduction I had with me, thinking I could in a short time see more of the men and manners of the place if I accompanied a traveling acquaintance I had made in his calls upon the firms with which he had to transact business. I was four times during the morning invited, not to liquor, that expression I never once had heard in in America, but to take a drink. There is much heartiness of feeling here, & everybody carries out, to the full extent, this American unclear of shaking hands with every body, which is a rational way of expressing good will without saying any thing. I walked about a mile out into the environs to see the houses of the Merchants & well-to-do inhabitants. I unclear hospitals, one for yellow fever cases that can pay, one for yellow fever case that cannot pay, & one for general cases. The streets of the town were full of pedestrians & of traffic. In this respect it bore a very favourable comparison with Charleston, where noting was going on. The population amounts to about 34,000. The Spaniards who originally settled this place have been utterly obliterated. On inquiry I found that some had remained in the city, being quite unable in any department of business to support the competition of the Anglo-Saxon, but that among unclear mean Whites, at some little distance from Mobile, a few Spanish names were to be found. These remnants of the original settlers the Alabamans call Dagos, a unclear of the unclear Spanish name Diego.