Field Notebook: Alabama, Mississippi, Wisconsin
Page 54
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Transcription
"are panelled round square floors, but as very few remain the central portion of the town all in a very deep sand. The general ornamentation of the houses and particularly the older ones are the porches grand objects are built of iron. Some of these old homes remind of Albert houses. Many of the fences are of the same architecture as the circular porch and occasionally we see iron cerath in the upper corner of windows. Everywhere the city does not possess. The gutters are deep and are wet and sometime extremely dirty. The houses of distinction and some public places are