Identifier: picturesqueameri01brya (find matches)
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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dral, the deep shade of their evergreen foliage shutting out the sky above, and thelong, gray moss-drapery depending from the leafy canopy, silent and still, or gently mov-ing in the breeze, give to the scene a weird and strangely-sombre aspect at once pictu-resque and grandly solemn. Many years ago Bonaventure was devoted to the purposefor which it is so peculiarly fitted by Nature, and became the burial-place of many ofthe prominent families of Savannah, whose memorial monuments add to its solemnbeauty. Recently the place has been purchased by a company, by whom it has beenenclosed, the trees trimmed, the grounds cleared of their rank growth, laid out in lots,and opened to the public as a cemetery. In this operation much of the wild beautyof Bonaventure has been literally trimmed away, thus demonstrating the fact that, inthe picturesque at least, it is not always in the power of art to improve uponNature, Though constantly threatened from the commencement of the war till its evacua-
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ON THE SAVANNAH. 129 tion at its close, Savannah was so fortunate as to escape attack. Since the war hercitizens have been equally fortunate in being able to preserve her municipal govern-ment in the hands of her own people. A wise and prudent administration of heraffairs, together with the business enterprise and energy of her citizens in reopening andextending the old channels of commerce, and in inviting and providing employment tocapital and enterprise from abroad, has given an extraordinary impetus to the growthand commercial prosperity of the city, which, with the great natural advantages of herposition and the accomphshment of the great enterprises of internal improvement withwhich her interests are identified, afford the most encouraging assurance of a prosperousfuture. Augusta, which lies at the other extreme of the navigable waters of the Savannah,was settled only two years later than its seaward rival. Like Savannah, it was laid outunder the personal supervision of General

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