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New Orleans double underlined - Arrived here on the last day of Feb, and succeeded after a long search in finding rooms at the St. James on Magazine St. We were just at the top of the house having three awful long stair ways to climb, but as the whole city was crowded, it was "Hobson's" choice with us. As soon as we got settled we went out for a long walk, looked in the shop windows, visited a cotton press - a place where the bales anre pressed down to about half their original size, so as to give more room in shipping - it was a very interesting process to me, Walked as far as we could & then took