FERNANDINA.


ation is a very favorable one
is very extensive, particularly
of which gives employment
mills. Nearly all the railro
State center at Jacksonville,
fruit and early -vegetables, as
are shipped thence to Norther
 With what are known as


for commerce, and its trade
y in lumber, the preparation


to a
,ad an
and
well
n and
the "


number of large saw-
d steamer lines of the
immense quantities of
as of cotton and sugar,
foreign ports.
modern conveniences"


the city
excellent
artesian


is well suj
system of
wells, and


effective system of


organized an
lating library
byterian, Me
public halls,
all parts of
of 1880, the


t


d in s
and a
hodist,


applied.


It is lighted with gas, has an


water-works drawing the water
has recently been provided wit
sewers. The public schools are
successful operation; there are a c
free reading-room; Episcopalian,
Baptist, and Catholic churches; b


from
h an
well
ircu-
Pres-
anks,


newspapers, and telegraphic connection with
the United States. According to the census
resident population was 14,500, and the rate


of growth has been and is very rapid. When Florida shall
have achieved what now appears to be her "manifest des-
tiny," Jacksonville will be one of the great commercial
and industrial centers of the country.

 FERNANDINA.-This picturesque old city, one of the
most interesting in Florida, lies on the Atlantic coast, about
fifty miles northeast of Jacksonville, close to the Georgia
line, being the northernmost point in the State. It is built
on the west shore of Amelia Island, overlooking a broad
bay which affords the finest harbor on the coast south of
the Chesapeake Bay, and which gives it important commer-
cial advantages. Vessels drawing twenty feet of water can
cross the bar at high tide, and the largest ships can un-
load at the wharves. The Mallory Line of Direct Florida
Steamers has its southern terminus at Fernandina, and the
steamers of the Charleston and Savannah lines call here on
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