DOWN SOUTH. DOWN SOUTH BY LADY DUFFUS HARDY AUTHOR OF “THROUGH CITIES AND PRAIRIE LANDS” LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL LIMITED 1883 LONDON R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR., BREAD STREET HILL. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Two cities.--Our home upon the waters.--Southward bound.--“Only a brass star.”--At Ford’s Hotel....._Pages 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 _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.