CONTENTS.
Reading edition
CHAPTER I.
Two cities.—Our home upon the waters.—Southward bound.—“Only a brass star.”—At Ford’s HotelPages 1-13
CHAPTER II.
To-day and the yesterdays.—Richmond—Its monuments—Its surroundings.—The sculptor’s studio.—Andromache. Pages 14-28
CHAPTER III.
Fire and ruins.—Through sylvan scenes.—The Cave of Lwray.—A jewelled city underground.—The white savages of Wise County Pages 29-44
CHAPTER IV.
Through the great swamp.—Charleston.—A memory of the Old World.—Blacks and whites.—Peculiarities of the coloured folk.—A ghost of dead days.—Quaint scenes Pages 45-62
CHAPTER V.
St. Michael’s chimes.—Architectural attraction.—Magnolia Cemetery.—A philosophical mendicant.—The market.—Aboard the boat—Fort SumpterPages 63-83
CHAPTER VI.
The great Salt Marsh.—A break down.—We reach Savannah.—Fancy sketches.—The forest city.—A gossip with the natives.—Cross questions and crooked answersPages 84-90
CHAPTER VII.
To-day and yesterday.—General experience of travel in the South.—The associated Southern railwaysPages 100-109
CHAPTER VIII.
En route for Jacksonville.—A few words about Florida—Its climate.—Its folk—Its productionsPages 110-121
CHAPTER IX.
Pine forests.—Arcadian scenes.—Strange companionship.—We reach JacksonvillePages 122-131
CHAPTER X.
Jacksonville.—Our hotel.—Greenleaf’s museum.—Floridian curiosities. East winds and tropical breezes.—Strawberry packingPages 132-143
CHAPTER XI.
Fernandina.—Romance or history?—Dungeness.—To Tocor.—On board the boat.—Oddities.—A lovely water drivePages 144-158
CHAPTER XII.
St. Augustine.—A land of the long ago.—A chat with a Spanish antiquity.—Quaint streets.—City gate.—Fort Marion.—The old Slave Market.—The monuments.—The Plaza.—Cathedral and ConventPages 159-179
CHAPTER XIII.
A chat by the way.—A steam bicycle.—Rough times.—At OcalaPages 180-188
CHAPTER XIV.
The “Okeehumkee.”—The Silver Springs.—The weird wonders of the OcklawahaPages 189-203
CHAPTER XV.
Picturesque scenery on St. John’s River.—“Sickening for the fever ma’am?”—The inland lakes.—A pair of elderly turtle doves.—Sport on the Indian riverPages 204-221
CHAPTER XVI.
Retrospective.—A critical conductor.—Montgomery.—Train wreckers at work.—Weird scenes in the moonlight.—Silent watchers.—“Wild Cat” train to New OrleansPages 222-237
CHAPTER XVII.
New Orleans, “The Paris of the South.”—French quarters.—Tropical street scene.—To Carrolton.—The Levées.—Classical architecture.—A coloured funeral.—The dismal swamp.—Lake Ponchartrain.—A gambling populationPages 238-252
CHAPTER XVIII.
Atlanta.—A wilderness of bricks and mortar.—Lovely surroundings.—Scarlet woods.—Memorial day.—Scenes in the cemeteryPages 253-262
CHAPTER XIX.
Columbia.—Wright’s Hotel—Variegated scenes.—Past and present—A Sabbath city.—The Penitentiary.—Sunday service.—A few last wordsPages 263-276