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Excerpts from "A Second Visit to the United States of North America" by Sir Charles Lyell, an English geologist.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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In the passages Lyell describes the physical characteristics of the Tombigbee River and gulf coast in Alabama; discrimination against African Americans in both the North and the South; implications of emancipation for the economic and social positions of white Americans; and the encroachment of Protestantism on Catholic traditions, such as Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
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1846 February 1846 02 00
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