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28th This is a lovely day & the scenery is as the Pilot Mr. Anderson said, the finest on the route. The sugar plantations on both sides of the River. Each one with its sugar mill & negro cabins looked like a continuation of villages - We saw a great many handsome houses thickly surrounded by evergreens, among which the live oak was conspicuous, it is one of the most beautiful trees I ever saw. The holly & Magnolia were abundant, and almost every house had an orange