Adieu to Atlanta and arrival in Macon--Early settlement of Savannah by General Oglethorpe--Met by the Yamacraw Indians with presents--Death of Count Pulaski--Bonaventure Cemetery--The inland route to Florida--Pass St. Simon's Island--Wesley visits Frederica to establish his faith--Cumberland Island, the home of Nathanael Greene--Olives--The scuppernong vine--Dungenness, the burial-place of Light-Horse Harry Lee--General Robert E. Lee visits the grave of his father--Amelia Island--Taken by filibusters--Their surrender--Fine beach and light-house--The turtle--Sea-shells--God's treasures--A resting-place for the weary. CHAPTER II.....28 Fate of the Spanish galleons--St. John's Bar and River--General remarks on Florida--Lumber-mills--Jacksonville--Grumblers--The invalid--Churches--Dr. Stowe preaches in the Methodist church--Mrs. Harriet Stowe goes to sleep--Sermon by a colored brudder--Journalism--Moncrief Springs--The invincibility of boarding-housekeepers--The cemetery--Too much delay with invalids before coming to Florida. CHAPTER III.....46 Jacksonville Agricultural Association, and its advantages--Exhibits of wine, perfume, and fruits--Industries of the ladies--Yachts--General Spinner--Steamer Dictator--Nimbus on the river--Mandarin--Employment of its inhabitants--Murder of Mr. Hartley by Indians--Weariness of war by the settlers--Fanciful names given to towns--Hibernia and Magnolia--Green Cove Springs--Fort at Picolata--Pilatka--Putnam House--The _Herald_, edited by Alligator Pratt--Colonel Harte's orange-grove--The Catholic Bishop as sexton--Ocklawaha River. CHAPTER IV.....55 No fossilized Spaniards on the Ocklawaha--Scenery on its banks--Thick growth of timber--Passengers amuse themselves killing alligators--Climbing asters--Air-plants--Water-lily--An affectionate meeting at Orange Springs--The deaf lady--Pleasure-riding in a cracker-cart--Northern and Southern crackers--March of improvement--Make fast!--Wooding up--Passengers take a walk--Night on the water--Surrounded by thickets--Our flame-lit craft moves on with its pillar of fire--Who!--Plutonic regions--Pyrotechnic displays. CHAPTER V.....69 Incident as we enter Silver Springs--A gentleman loses his grinders--The Mirror of Diana--Sunset--A beautiful legend of the Princess Weenonah--A scientific description by Prof. J. Le Conte--Vicinity of the springs--Improvements--Description of Ocala--Impressions of DeSoto--Public Square--Contented, hospitable people--Marion county the back-bone of the State--Matt. Driggers and his neighbors go on a mastodon hunt--Lakes and long prairie-grass above Silver Springs--The man who wanted a sheriff to marry him--Leesburg and its improvements--A dredging-boat mistaken for a cook-stove--Indian trails--Historic relics--Lake Dunham--Okahumkee--The Ocklawaha historic ground. CHAPTER VI.....90