Book/Printed Material Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as a resort for health and recreation.
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Image 1 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 4 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 5 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 6 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 7 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 8 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
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Image 9 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE, 1 FLOEIDA. SKETCHES OF ITS HISTORY, OBJECTS OF INTEREST, AND ADVANTAGES AS A RESORT FOR HEALTH AND RECREATION. BY AN ENGLISH VISITOR. ■WITH NOTES FOE NORTHERN TOURISTS ON ST. jailN...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 10 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1SC8, by E. S. CARE, In the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 11 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE, A SKETCH BY AN ENGLISH VISITOR. Saint Augustine, the most ancient tovv^n of ^N orth America, is situated in Florida, upon a narrow slip of land formed by the St....- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 12 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 4 SAINT AUGUSTINE. Elysium of constantly renewed bliss of youth and beauty. For nothing could look more like a paradise than Florida in April. Then he beheld it bathed in balmy light,...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 13 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 5 rose, the verbena, and jessamine entwine their fragrance and their foliage. The vine clings with delicate tendrils round every projecting rugged trunk that needs a shade. The best loved...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 14 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 6 SAINT AtJGUSTIXE. moss hanging from the evergreen oak, or the pine and orange alternate laving in its brim now spreading out to a placid lake where the stately pelican floats at...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 15 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 7 to America, where they are still traceable in some of the Southern States, who, nevertheless, m their own hour of discord and disunion, did not allow those who dissented...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 16 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 8 SAINT AUGUSTINE. The escutcheon of Menendez, the great Span- ish commander, is traced in blood, and the foun- dation-stone of Saint Augustine which he laid is saturated with the gore of...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 17 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 9 blood. The dauntless followers of Ribault, the first settlers of this little colony, were the heroic victims of another St. Bartholomew. Historians disagree about the number who fell, but...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 18 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 10 SAINT AUGUSTINE. expand and glory in its thoughts and aspirations; free to worship in a temple or on the mountain- top. Such a spot was found in the benignant continent of...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 19 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINl AUGUSTINE. 11 of lier pine forests to each and every one. God s mercy goetli not out of reach, and his dew falls on the feverish eyelids of those who weep....- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 20 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 12 SAINT AUGUSTINE. tion St. Peter to be allowed to return to New York. They all repined because Wenliam Lake ice could not be raised in Florida; every other growth was in...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 21 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAIJST AUaUSTIJNE. 13 enamored of the reflection, be would no doubt have followed suit and not only proclaimed it a paradise but inhabited by Pens. So it is that Man never is...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 22 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 14 SAINT AUGUSTINE. indefatigable in their endeavors to civilize the Indians, and for some time apparently succeeded. But there seems to be something in the nature of the red men of the...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 23 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 15 that no sentiment of Christianity had ever enter- ed their savage breasts and in all jDrobability never would. The spirit of Christianity is in- comprehensible to them. The devoted...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 24 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 16 SAINT AUGUSTINE. Any thing which we call improvement and culti- vation, they are averse to and when pressed upon them, they retire further and further back to their fastnesses and mountains,...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 25 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 17 obliged to build a sea-wall, the remains of which are still visible on Bay-street, much within the limits of the present one, constructed at a much later date, and...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 26 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 18 SAINT AUGUSTINE. The vicissitudes of the picturesque little town seem, about 1712, to have been varied by a famine, owing to the non-arrival of the vessels from Spain, carrying the usual...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 27 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 19 tliorpe laid siege to the place in regular form, planting his batteries upon the island of Anastasia, and bombarding both fort and town therefrom. This was the most formidable...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 28 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 20 SAINT AUGUSTINE. before the fort, with drums heating and flags flying, dared the garrison to come out and give battle. The Spaniards, believing discretion to be the better part of valor,...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 29 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 21 cities are at an end for ever to believe that the worm corroding at the heart of the fairest land of God s creation is destroyed that the great...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 30 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 22 SAINT AFGUSTINE. Spanish, Frencli, American, Indian, African, must have formed a curiously heterogeneous com- pound a real pot-pourri of nationality. Until 1812 the country continued to be har- assed by the...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 31 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 23 On Sundays tlie Episcopalians, who have their pretty little semi-Gothic church on the opposite side of the square, are brought to a summary stand- still in their devotion. The...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 32 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 24 SAINT AUGUSTINE. mass of granite. It is quarried from Anastasia, Island. Within the fort are shown chambers with- out light or air, which are said to have been used by the...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 33 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 25 delightful promenade, always swept by a pleas- ant breeze. The Atlantic Ocean rolls into a small bay formed by the mouth of the River Sebastian and Anastasia Island, whose...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 34 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 26 SAINT AUGUSTINE. said to have been found in this primitive Vene- tian prison. The roaring of the sea might recall the fierce bombardment from Anastasia Island, striking horror into the hearts...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 35 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 27 years. Treaties were made to confine the wild- man within certain limits and boundaries. But the Indian, having ever considered this beautiful country as specially constructed for his benefit...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 36 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 28 SA.INT AUGUSTINE. Driven to bay, they could swim the river or pad- dle their bark canoes across and back an army would seek a ford or construct a pontoon bridge. Their...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 37 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 29 that of his family. The white man is an intruder and encroacher, and the destroyer of his means of life. Looking at the question from the Indian s most...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 38 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 30 SAINT AUGUSTINE. peer through the branches, or see the brushwood and undergrowth crushing under his agile spring, or hear his war-whoop echoing through the oalv thickets. The story of Coacouchee, as...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 39 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... SAINT AUGUSTINE. 31 succeeded in giving his captors a good deal of trouble after that. When he was again captured and brought into camp, he was informed that his liberty would only...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869
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Image 40 of Saint Augustine, Florida. Sketches of its history, objects of interest, and advantages as ... 32 SAINT AUGUSTINE. The persuasiveness of this appeal could not be refused the greater part of his people came in. The meeting between the tribe and their chief, was touching in the...- Contributor: Yelverton, Thérèse
- Date: 1869