What to see in America . on. Just across theElizabeth River is Portsmouth, the location of one of thegovernments large navy yards. Virginia Beach, directlyeast, on the shore of the ocean, offers surf bathing and goodfishing. Just above Norfolk the Elizabeth River joinsHampton Roads, one of the finest harbors in the world,where there is anchorage for the combined fleets of thenations. One calm Saturday afternoon in March, 1862,the Confederate ironclad, Merrimac, attacked several of thefinest Union vessels that lay in the roadstead, destroyed two,and would have completed its triumph the next day
What to see in America . on. Just across theElizabeth River is Portsmouth, the location of one of thegovernments large navy yards. Virginia Beach, directlyeast, on the shore of the ocean, offers surf bathing and goodfishing. Just above Norfolk the Elizabeth River joinsHampton Roads, one of the finest harbors in the world,where there is anchorage for the combined fleets of thenations. One calm Saturday afternoon in March, 1862,the Confederate ironclad, Merrimac, attacked several of thefinest Union vessels that lay in the roadstead, destroyed two,and would have completed its triumph the next day but forthe timely arrival that night from New York of the Monitor,the first turret vessel ever used. The Merrimac, aptlydescribed as a huge half-submerged crocodile, was van-quished in the most famous of all naval duels by the Monitor,which was likened to a cheese box on a raft, and naval war-fare was revolutionized. The day of the wooden warshipwas gone. Old Point Comfort, at the entrance to Hampton Roads, Virginia 149. The White Housk ;he Confederacy with Chesapeake Bayopening northward,has long been a favor-ite seaside resort. Itsname was conferredby Capt. John Smithin gratitude for theshelter it afforded hisvessel from the opensea. Here is FortressMonroe, the most elaborate fortification in the United States. The stoneramparts are about two miles in circumference and inclosean eighty-acre area which resembles a beautiful park. Out-side of the rampart is a broad moat. Jefferson Davis wasconfined in the fortress for a year and a half after the CivilWar, and then was released without a trial. Four milesdistant is located the well-known Hampton Normal andAgricultural Institute for Negroes and Indians, and not farbeyond that is Newport News through which passes anenormous tonnage for or from the seagoing ships. On theother side of the James River, about a dozen miles to the west, is one of theoldest churchesin Virginia, atSmithfield. Itwas erected in1632, but for halfa century
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