A TRIP


THROUGH NORTH FLORIDA.


halcyon days of the slave-owning cotton-planters, and this
was their paradise. The road is now almost disused,
trains only passing over it twice a week, on "steamer-


day," connecting with the
 Tallahassee, the capital
the flowery South," is one
America. It' is built upon
face of a high hill, surroun
hills and deep valleys, for it
and lakes. It is laid out i
which is its principal busin


weekly Henderson steamers.
of the State, "the floral city of
of the loveliest places in all
the broad, gently rolling sur-
ded on all sides by other lovely
I is in a region of hills, valleys,
n squares, with Main Street-
less street-lined mostly on one


side with plain, old-fashioned brick stores for a distance of
four blocks. This street is fairly level and wide. All the
other streets are charmingly irregular and uneven-in fact,
many are quite declivitous-and are lined with grand, old,
mammoth-sized magnolias, oaks, maples, elms, and other
magnificent shade-trees. Broad, roomy, open squares are


frequent, all shady, park-like, and inviting.
 At one end of the city stands the State-House, a large
and very plain brick structure, painted a light color, with a
front and rear portico, having each six great two-story col-
umns. It stands in a spacious square on the crest of the
hill, and can be seen from a long distance. The grounds
are laid out with winding paths and lawns, shaded by


many grand old magnolias, oaks, and the like, and the air
is redolent with perfume from the many flowers always
blooming there.
 It is an unpretentious old city, with an air of village-
like rustic simplicity; no factories (except one cotton-
mill); all is quiet, country life. The residence avenues
are mostly lined with cozy little cottages, and comfortable,
roomy, substantial mansions of the good old-time style of
architecture, and all are surrounded by neatly fenced lawns
and gardens, almost all having quite ample grounds, well
kept-and flowers, flowers, flowers! Everywhere in the