A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . he first Monday inDecember. Demopolis, on the Tombigbee, twohundred and twenty miles from Mobile,situated a little below the mouth of theBlack Warrior river, communicates dailywith Columbus, Miss., and Mobile, bysteamboats. Stage-coaches go threetimes a week to Tuscaloosa and principal public buildings are threechurches, two academies, and the land-office ; and the population is about onethousand. Gainesville, a small town, about twohundred and eighty-three miles fromMobile, is on the Tombigbee, and aplace of much trade in c
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . he first Monday inDecember. Demopolis, on the Tombigbee, twohundred and twenty miles from Mobile,situated a little below the mouth of theBlack Warrior river, communicates dailywith Columbus, Miss., and Mobile, bysteamboats. Stage-coaches go threetimes a week to Tuscaloosa and principal public buildings are threechurches, two academies, and the land-office ; and the population is about onethousand. Gainesville, a small town, about twohundred and eighty-three miles fromMobile, is on the Tombigbee, and aplace of much trade in cotton. It con-tains only about two hundred inhabi-tants, but is daily visited by the steam-boats from Columbus and Mobile, andstage-coaches go three times a week, tothe latter place and Jackson in Missis-sippi. St. Stephens, with a population ofone thousand, is the second settlementin the state in point of age. It standson the Tombigbee, one hundred milesfrom Mobile, and has two churches, aland-office, and an Cahawba, on the west side of Alaba-. .J 420 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA. ma river, two hundred and forty milesfrom Mobile, and once the capital town,contains about one thousand has a courthouse, an academy, andtwo churches, and the river steamboatstouch there daily, while stage-coachesgo to Mobile, Tuscaloosa, and Hunts-viJle. Selma, sixteen miles above Cahawba,on the right bank of the river, has twoacademies, three churches, and aboutone thousand inhabitants. Fossil Bones, &c.—Alabama, morethan most other parts of our country,abounds in ancient bones, which arefound in various positions, but mostabundantly in a peculiar stratum, whichin some places lies many feet beneaththe natural surface, but in others, is laidbare, or cut through by the wearingaway of streams of water, &c. In cer-tain districts, these remains of ancientand often unknown animals, have beenlong familiar to the present inhabitants,as well as to their predecessors the In-
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