. Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists. Arch-dale, one of the Lords Pro-prietors, such an avenue asno prince of Europe couldboast This was due to thenoble oaks and magnolias,the myrtles and the jessa-mines^ which lined it on either hand, making it a covered way,embowered in shade, grateful in green,venerable with moss, and giving out aperpetual fragrance f
. Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists. Arch-dale, one of the Lords Pro-prietors, such an avenue asno prince of Europe couldboast This was due to thenoble oaks and magnolias,the myrtles and the jessa-mines^ which lined it on either hand, making it a covered way,embowered in shade, grateful in green,venerable with moss, and giving out aperpetual fragrance from -a world ofsummer flowers. Returning to the city you will findyourself interested in numerous publicbuildings and institutions, all of whichare of interest to the traveller, whois either studious or simply is especially rich in her pub-lic charities :—the South Carolina, Fel-lowship, Hibernian, Hebrew, German,and a variety besides, all of whom havelarge endowments and fine has a Literary and a Medical Col-lege in prosperous exercise. The Col-lege Library contains some 10,000 vol-umes; the Charleston Library, some30,000; the Apprentices, 12,000; theCollege Museum is second to none inthe United States. The Hotels are numerous, and among. Entrance to the MagnoHa Cemetery, Charleston, S. C. 252 SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston—The Seaboard and Lowlands, the most stately edifices in the are usually kept in a style whichwill rank with any in the the most conspicuous of theseare the Charleston Hotel, the MillsHouse, the Calder House, the Pa-vilion, and the M Planters1 Hotel. Thecharges at these houses range from$1 50 to 82 50 per diem. The Charles-ton Hotel, the Mills House, andil Pavilion Hotel, are particularly goodspecimens of Charleston architecture. The commerce of Charleston, onceequal to that of any city on the Atlantic,has undergone many fluctuations. Itis now reviving, and gradually increas-ing in extent and profit. S
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