CHAPTER XXII.

 ROUTES TO AND THROUGH FLORIDA.

 JAOKSONVILLE is the grand objective point for all Florida visitors.
 It is the focus where all lines of travel from all parts of the North
 and West terminate, and where all the local lines of railroads and
 river-boats have their beginning or chief office; where information
 concerning all portions of the State can be obtained, and all uncer-
 tain routes to interior points of interest decided upon. This su-
 premacy is shared in some slight degree by Pensacola, but this city
 is so far removed from the Florida sought by Northern tourists, and
 is so situated geographically, that it really represents another and
 distant region of entirely different attractions and interest. It is the
 chief Floridian city on the Gulf, and is best known to the people of
 the adjoining Gulf States. In fact, Pensacola belongs, by all natu-
 ral and geographical laws, to Alabama, and is far more accessible to
 the people of that and neighboring States than to those of Florida.
 This difficulty, however, will soon be remedied by the expected
 early completion of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Rail-
 road, from its present terminus on the Chattahoochee to its natural
 and originally proposed terminus, Pensacola.
 To the tourist from New England and New York there are sev-
eral routes open, all accommodating and desirable.

 TO FLORIDA BY WATER.
 (1.) One of the well-appointed steamers of the Mallory Steam-
ship Line sails from Pier 20 East River at three o'clock p.-x. each
Friday, visiting Port Royal en route, arriving at Fernandina on the
morning of the following Tuesday, and connecting at the wharf
there with the train to Jacksonville (only thirty-three miles, an
hour's pleasant ride over the new railroad). For invalids and all