The voyage from New-York, by sailing or steam-packet, through to Charleston or Savannah, is the most reliable and expeditious. Twice a week, steamboats connect between Savannah and the St. John’s River, at Picolata. The distance from Picolata to St. Augustine, is over land, and about eighteen miles. This distance is overcome by stage-coach, and a new and convenient omnibus the present proprietor of the line, Mr. Bridier, has just had completed for that route. Passengers are met by these conveyances, and usually reach St. Augustine by 4 o’clock P. M., and often about noon. There is an inland steam connection between Charleston, S. C., and Savannah, Ga., with which the Florida boats connect twice in a week. The most expeditious and economical route to Florida is that by which the traveler takes passage direct from New-York to Savannah, where he will be received by the steamer, with his baggage, and brought into Florida and landed within eighteen miles of St. Augustine; the distance to which, from Savannah, is 218 miles. The passage from Savannah, especially over the waters of the noble river of the St. John’s, is pleasant and instructive. The lover of nature--the curious stranger--may each be gratified. In passing along this route, the traveler will get a “bird’s-eye view” of a considerable portion of the southern country, on the seaboard. The plantations--marshes--and peculiar varieties of trees, among which the noted cabbage-tree will be conspicuous--creeks--inlets--and the various specimens of natural history--the alligator--and peculiar species of water-fowl met with--and the various contrasts between northern and southern habits, as presented in agricultural life--will be novelties, more or less interesting and instructive to the curious traveler. Many prejudices will be dissipated--many errors will be corrected--many contrasts will be presented. FINIS. * * * * * FOOTNOTES: [1] TRANSLATION.--“Don Ferdinand the Sixth being King of Spain, and the Field Marshal, Don Alonzo Fernandos de Herida being Governor and Captain General of this place, St. Augustine of Florida and its province, this fortress was finished in the year 1756. The works were directed by the Capt. Engineer, Don Pedro de Brazas y Garay.”--_See Williams’s Hist. Flor._ [2] Sprague’s Hist. War in Florida. [3] Bauer. [4] Johnson’s Life of General Green. [5] As there are some slight variations among historians in respect to the order of the events in the destruction and overthrow of the colony on the St. John’s and of this massacre, I have inclined to the numerical preponderance of historical proof, inclining to Bancroft, reconciling the several particulars. [6] Williams. [7] Bancroft’s Hist. U. S. A. [8] Ibid. [9] Family Library. [10] Cohen. [11] Stephen’s Hist. Geo., art. in Southern Quarterly; April No. 1848. [12] Spanish accounts say less than this.