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His? discenty? 1. Inssissing N. Orleans -

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X To me N.O. was an inlenaty point the inm penlenstens? as having been & was ere then the hot bed for all operations regarding Texas.

 Then resources of all sorts ^for ?yputythe amen? were centralized, & an ray emerging then on ahge? found parts

to N.O. to assist in riding the ?each in every possible way betw the New Republic & Mexico *

 There was a charm to me ere as an Traveller in the North expance of the Gulf of Mexico: its lazy calms,

gentle ans. unclear: ped snither heges ? Harmies, accinged ink tanfer lightig & ? feds of Thunder - the freezing Northers then it was the cruyeg crying? groan of pirates of ? atereach? by the richly laden galleons &c - Ner the shary almost nnemths? entrances of the ^thist? & turbid Mississippi, its lon mud shores, with vast quantities of drift wood, from impenetrable forests in lands unknown & then the aligators sleeping in the water looking like pieces of drift wood.

Around this mighty therm? ^then in the waters the land became a little higher, steams?,

^jass? vessels of all sizes began to mnd? - the resketin?