Chapter I: Front Matter

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 _Page 45-62_

CHAPTER V.

St. Michael’s chimes.--Architectural attraction.--Magnolia Cemetery.--A philosophical mendicant.--The market.--Aboard the boat--Fort Sumpter....._Pages 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 answers....._Pages 84-90_

CHAPTER VII.

To-day and yesterday.--General experience of travel in the South.--The associated Southern railways....._Pages 100-109_

CHAPTER VIII.

_En route_ for Jacksonville.--A few words about Florida--Its climate.--Its folk--Its productions....._Pages 110-121_

CHAPTER IX.

Pine forests.--Arcadian scenes.--Strange companionship.--We reach Jacksonville....._Pages 122-131_

CHAPTER X.

Jacksonville.--Our hotel.--Greenleaf’s museum.--Floridian curiosities. East winds and tropical breezes.--Strawberry packing _Page 132-143_

CHAPTER XI.

Fernandina.--Romance or history?--Dungeness.--To Tocor.--On board the boat.--Oddities.--A lovely water drive _Page 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 Convent....._Pages 159-179_

CHAPTER XIII.

A chat by the way.--A steam bicycle.--Rough times.--At Ocala....._Pages 180-188_

CHAPTER XIV.

The “Okeehumkee.”--The Silver Springs.--The weird wonders of the Ocklawaha....._Pages 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 river....._Pages 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 Orleans....._Pages 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 population....._Pages 238-252_

CHAPTER XVIII.

Atlanta.--A wilderness of bricks and mortar.--Lovely surroundings.--Scarlet woods.--Memorial day.--Scenes in the cemetery....._Pages 253-262_

CHAPTER XIX.

Columbia.--Wright’s Hotel--Variegated scenes.--Past and present--A Sabbath city.--The Penitentiary.--Sunday service.--A few last words....._Pages 263-276_

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