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one A. M. on the 10th, where we landed the Spray 

 and her crew. 



We have visited Florida on many occasions, and have 

 tested the sea-going qualities of the Dictator and City 

 Point, plying between Charleston, Savannah, Fernan- 

 dina, Jacksonville, and Pilatka, and can unhesitatingly 

 recommend them to the travelling public. The traveller 

 who patronizes one of these boats will find large and 

 pleasantly furnished forward and after cabins, large 

 state-rooms, good beds, clean linen, and excellent table, 

 and last, though not least, efficient, courteous, and atten 

 tive officers and servants. To those who are anxious to 

 escape the buffetings of old mother ocean, we would 

 say, take a sleeping car 011 the A. & G. E. E. from 

 Savannah, and Jacksonville can be reached in a pleas 

 ant manner. Upon reaching Savannah the traveller will 

 find the Lizzie Baker advertised to take the inside route 

 to Florida. The statement is only true to a certain 

 extent, as the Lizzie B. is compelled to take the outside 

 route from Fernandina Harbor to the river St. John, 

 which is the most dangerous portion of the route, and 

 as the Lizzie B. is not as well adapted to cross the St. 

 Johns bar or to contend with heavy seas as the Dictator 

 or City Point, we unhesitatingly advise the tourist to 

 take passage on one of the latter. 



Having shipped our future home, the Spray, on a 

 flat car, we left Fernandina on the morning of Friday the 

 llth, and at five P. M. found ourselves at Cedar Keys. 

 We travelled over this road in February, 1873, and compli 

 ment the management upon the improved condition of 

 the road bed and motive power. One great drawback 

 to Cedar Keys is the absence of a good hotel, and we are 

 satisfied that a well-conducted house, with a good table 



