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We have not gone yet, and what is more do not believe we shall go, for there has been so many attempts to get us away and all have failed. In one of your letters you asked if I were in the City or a few miles our, in answer will say, am still in the City although in the lower part. To give you some idea of the sise of this place, will say that the Corporation extends nearly ten miles along the river which is in the form of a crescent, the depth of the City is small compared to the length, it being not over a mile in any place. Canal Street runs from the river back to Swamps it is considered the principal Street, and is in the centre of the City. The streets that run at a right angle with Canal change their names and commence numbering at Canal St. We are now situated on Dauphine St. the continuation of Baronne, our numbers are from 650 to 660 inclusive yet the City limits extend two miles below it. Lt. Davis has recd. his commission as Maj. Surgeon of the Regt. John Curtis our