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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 
