Colonial Mobile

Peter Joseph Hamilton

ISBN 10: 0817352287 / ISBN 13: 9780817352288

Published by Univ of Alabama Pr, 1976

1976 edition. Minor wear to the dust jacket. Light wear to the boards. Slightly cocked spine. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. Dust jacket condition is Very Good. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Seller Inventory # 1677640126

Synopsis:

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...the confluence of the Tombigbee or Chickasaw River with the Alabama or Coosau he beheld alligators, and just within the capes of the former "fine river" he found a lagoon containing a green, wavy plain of water-lilies, some being seven or eight inches wide and of a lemon yellow. The seed of this NymphoEa nelumbo (sweet-scented-water lily, water chinque-pin) are eaten as a laxative. Up the river, at a steep red clay bluff, he saw an old field, with a young forest growth on the plantations, still preserving the corn and potato ridges,--zea and batata, in Bartram's vocabulary. He supposed "this to be the site of an ancient fortified post of the French, as there appear vestiges of a rampart and other traces of a fortress, perhaps Fort Louis de la Mobile; but in all probability it will » Bartram's Travtlt, pp. 403, 405. Ibid., p. 406. not remain long visible, the stream of the river making daily encroachments on it by carrying away the land on which it stood." i This is the more worthy of quotation because some have cited Bartram as locating Fort Louis on Dog River, below the present city.2 The fact is that he does no such thing. He locates the fort--and does not make the modern error of calling it St. Louis--near Nannahubba. This is too far up, but at least shows that tradition in his time correctly placed the fort north and not south of the present Mobile. Opposite this Tombigbee fort was a swamp, enthusiastically described as the richest perhaps anywhere to be seen. Ascending the river, he saw on bluffs, as he went along, deserted plantations, houses burnt, and ancient Indian villages. He returned to Major Farmer's, and had a touch of fever, broken by tartar emetic. The major then furnished the botanist with a negro and horses to go in search...

Bibliographic Details

Title: Colonial Mobile
Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good