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realize that that whole section "was so recently a vast military 

 camp, ruled and governed by a despotism such as only war 

 necessitates and breeds. Although defeated, it must.be a grateful 

 luxury for the southern people to inhale the glorious air of free- 

 dom once more, undisturbed by war's alarms, and battles whose 

 very victories were purchased at a cost of evils only equaled by 

 their defeats. 



The few hours that intervened between the arrival of one 

 steamer and the sailing of another, were pleasantly occupied in 

 making a cursory examination of Georgia's principal seaport. It 

 is a city of parks — some twenty or more we believe, in all, great 

 and small, so arranged that some one of them is within easy ac- 

 cess of every citizen's dwelling. The avenues, pleasantly shaded, 

 turn every two blocks to the right and left, and surround emer- 

 ald parks — reminding one of the rivers of Florida, those blue 

 ribbons upon which the jewelled lakes are strung. The largest 

 and most beautiful of the parks upon Bull street, is the " Pulas- 

 ki." Semi-tropical trees of large size and luxuriant foliage, some 

 festooned and draped in gray moss, gave it a very attractive ap- 

 pearance. A large new park has been laid out and enclosed, 

 adjoining this, called the Pulaski Extension, upon which a large 

 and handsome confederate monument has been erected. We 

 were pleased to see no evidence anywhere of the ruin and waste 

 that so often mark the bloody footsteps of war. Sherman's 

 grand march to the sea rendered the city's surrender without a 

 struggle an inevitable necessity. Its forts and batteries were of 

 no use with a large victorious army entering its back door. 



The tourist at Savannah, bound for Florida, can make the 

 journey in a few hours by railroad, or go by either of two lines 

 of ocean steamers, one of which takes the route outside the 

 islands, and the other avoids the hazards of the open sea and the 

 discomforts of sea sickness, by passing between the coast-islands 



