Bloomfield's Illustrated Historical Guide, Ebracing an Account of the Antiquities of St. Augustine, Florida (with Map). To which is Added a Condensed Guide of the St. John's, Ocklawaha, Halifax, and Indian Rivers. Distance Table to Points on the Above-mentioned Rivers, and Principal Cities North, East, and West ...M. Bloomfield, 1882 - 110 pagine |
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Anastasia Island Augus Augustine Augustine Hotel bastions beautiful Bluff BOARDING-HOUSES built cages called casemate church Clay County climate Coa-cou-che coast colored Confederate coquina cottage Dewhurst's distance drawbridge Drayton Island dungeon east bank East Florida east side entrance erected excellent famous feet formerly Fort Caroline Fort Marion garden garrison George Street governor Green Cove Springs Halifax River hundred Indian River inhabitants John's River Lake George Lake Monroe Landing Magnolia Marion massacre Matanzas Matanzas River miles from Jack miles from Jackson miles from Jacksonville miles from St miles south military Minorcan Mosquito Inlet Ocklawaha River Old City Gate old Spanish oldest orange groves Palmetto Picolata Pilatka Plaza post-office Putnam County resi residence Seminole settlement Silver Spring Smyrna sonville Spaniards Spanish Cathedral stands stone tion Titusville Tolomato town Treasury Street Turnbull United States Barracks VIEWS OF ST visitor Volusia County wall west bank west side winter
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Pagina 75 - Anastasia ; and it is worth making a long journey to see. No record remains of its original construction ; but it is supposed to have been erected about a hundred and fifty years since,* and the shell rock of which it is built is dark with time.
Pagina 76 - ... higher latitudes of the American continent. The climate of Florida is, in fact, an insular climate ; the Atlantic on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico on the west, temper the airs that blow over it, making them cooler in summer and warmer in winter. I do not wonder, therefore, that it is so much the resort of invalids ; it would be more so if the softness of its atmosphere and the beauty and serenity of its seasons were generally known. Nor should it be supposed that accommodations for persons...
Pagina 72 - ... a clear brunette ; much attention is paid to the arrangement of their . hair; at mass they are always well dressed in black silk basquinas (petticoats), with the little mantilla (black lace veil) over their heads; the men in their military costumes; good order and temperance are their characteristic virtues ; but the vice of gambling too often profanes their social haunts, from which even the fair sex are not excluded. Two days following our arrival, a ball was given by some of the inhabitants,...
Pagina 49 - All was green ; the grass grew high, and the deer stood in the midst looking at me. I then saw a small white cloud approaching, and when just before me, out of it came my twinsister dressed in white, and covered with bright silver ornaments. Her long black hair which I had often braided fell down upon her back. She clasped me around the neck and said,
Pagina 73 - At length we emerged upon a shrubby plain, and finally came in sight of this oldest city of the United States, seated among its trees on a sandy swell of land where it has stood for three hundred years. I was struck with its ancient and homely aspect, even at a distance, and could not help likening it to pictures which 1 had seen of Dutch towns, though it wanted a windmill or two, to make the resemblance perfect.
Pagina 77 - Sunday, about eleven o'clock, I heard the sound of a serenade in the streets. Going out, I found a party of young men, with instruments of music, grouped about the window of one of the dwellings, singing a hymn in honor of the Virgin in the Mahonese dialect. They began, as I was told, with tapping on the shutter. An answering knock within had told them that their visit was welcome, and they immediately began the serenade. If no reply had been heard they would have passed on to another dwelling. I...
Pagina 75 - But in another corner of the fort we were taken to look at two secret cells, which were discovered a few years since, in consequence of the sinking of the earth over a narrow apartment between them. These cells are deep under ground, vaulted overhead, and without windows. In one of them a wooden machine was found, which some supposed might have been a rack, and in the other a quantity of human bones. The doors of these cells had been walled up and concealed with stucco before the fort passed into...
Pagina 48 - The day and manner of my death are given out, so that whatever I may encounter I fear nothing. The spirits of the Seminoles protect me, and the spirit of my twin sister, who died many years ago, watches over me ; when I am laid in the earth I shall go to live with her. She died suddenly. I was out hunting, and when seated by my campfire alone, I heard a strange voice, — a voice that told me to go to her.
Pagina 62 - ... not labour enough, inhuman taskmasters were set over them, and instead of allowing each family to do with their homely fare as they pleased, they were forced to join all together in one mess, and at the beat of a vile drum, to come to one common copper...
Pagina 74 - ... erected. That old fort, which they are now repairing, to fit it for receiving a garrison, was a sort of ruin, for the outworks had partly fallen, and it stood unoccupied by the military, a venerable monument of the Spanish dominion. But the orange-groves were the ornament and wealth of St.