Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of (14740694046)

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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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asters. Upon the east the windows projected eighteeninches into the street, and were very wide and proportionably high. On the west sidethe windows were commonly very small, and there was no opening of any kind to thenorth, upon which side they had double walls, six or eight feet asunder, forming a kindof hall for cellars and pantries. Before most of the entrances, which were from an innercourt, were arbors of vines, producing fine and luscious grapes. None of the houseswere supplied with chimneys or fireplaces. For the purposes of warmth, stone urns werefilled with coals, and placed in the rooms in the afternoon to moderate the temperaturein weather sufficiently cool to require it. The governors residence had piazzas on bothsides, also a belvedere and grand portico, decorated with Doric pillars and entablatures.At the north end of the town was the castle, a casemated fort, with four bastions, aravelin counterscarp, and a glacis, built with quarried stone, and constructed according to
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SCENE IN ST. AUGUSTINE.—THE DATE PALM, igo PICTURESQUE AMERICA. the system of Vauban. Half a mile to the north was a line, with a broad ditch andbastions- running from the Sebastian Creek to St. Marks River; a mile from that wasanother fortified line, with some redoubts, forming a second line of communication be-tween a staccata fort upon St. Sebastian River, and Fort Moosa, upon the St. MarksRiver. Within the first line, near the town, was a small settlement of Germans, whohad a church of their own. Upon the St. Marks River, within the second line, wasalso an Indian town, with a stone church built by the Indians themselves, and in verygood taste. These lines may be still distinctly traced. The churches spoken of, outside