FLORIDA.


fording an unsurpassed beach-drive
beach is as smooth, as hard, and as
during the season it presents an
its long lines of carriages and othe:
charming ride may be enjoyed to F
old fortification situated on the extr
the island.
 But of all the attractions of Fer
ity the chiefest is "Dungeness," o0
eral Nathanael Greene, of Revoluti
the property of General W. G. V


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nandina and its vicin-
nce the home of Gen-
ionary fame, and now
i. Davis. This noble
3ene by the State of
endid services to the
and Island, about an
small steamer. Cum-
of Georgia, close to
hteen miles long by
On one side lies the


the other is the sound, across
about a mile, is the mainland.


Dungehess, so named by General Greene's wife, is situ-
ated at the southern end of the island, and includes
about one third of its total area. The magnificent man-
sion was burned in the early part of the civil war, but the
ruins still stand firm as a rock, the massive old coquina-
stone walls having actually been hardened by the fire.
In the quaint old burying-ground, some distance from the
house, lie a number of the relatives of General Greene and
his wife; and here is the tomb of "Light-Horse Harry"
Lee, father of General Robert E. Lee.
 On a charming morning in January, 1880, I visited
Dungeness, and spent a couple of hours in wandering
about the beautiful grounds, with their curious old gar-
dens and fruit-groves. It was my second visit to the
place, and I felt that I could exist there as a modern


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