What to see in America . -kept parksthan any other city in the world. There is a small publicsquare at nearly every corner, and one of the wide streetshas a double row of big trees running right down the middlewith grass under them; and there, on the green lawn, thelittle children can be seen playing even in the small parks were used as market places andrallying points in case of Indian attack. One of Savannahspopular year-round resorts is Tybee Island, and another isThunderbolt, famous for fish and oysters. There is excellentquail-shooting in the vicinity, and the creeks
What to see in America . -kept parksthan any other city in the world. There is a small publicsquare at nearly every corner, and one of the wide streetshas a double row of big trees running right down the middlewith grass under them; and there, on the green lawn, thelittle children can be seen playing even in the small parks were used as market places andrallying points in case of Indian attack. One of Savannahspopular year-round resorts is Tybee Island, and another isThunderbolt, famous for fish and oysters. There is excellentquail-shooting in the vicinity, and the creeks and marshesare populous with ducks in their season. The famous Revolutionary general, Nathanael Greene, anative of Rhode Island, moved, after the war, to Georgia,where, in recogni-tion of his serv-ices, he wasgiven an estateknown as Mul-berry Grove notfar up the riverfrom the gen-erals death, thatshrewd New Eng-lander, Eli Whit-ney, was a tutor ^ narou pub. co. in the Greene Wilmington River at Bonaventure. 178 What to See in America home, and Mrs. Greene suggested that he should attemptto contrive a machine that would pick the seed out of cot-ton. This resulted in the invention of the ingenious cottongin which made the whole South opulent. The first machine,completed in 1793, did work in five hours which, if done byhand, would take one man two years. The first steamship ever built in the Ignited States wasowned in Savannah, bore the name of the city, and in April,1819, sailed for England, where it arrived twenty-two dayslater. An unusual attraction for tourists, five miles northwest,on the Savannah River, is the Hermitage, a plantation ofthe antebellum days, where the old mansion and slavedwellings may be inspected. But the one thing that everystranger in Savannah goes to see as a matter of course is theancient and picturesque estate of Bonaventure, four mileseast of the city. For a long time this has been used as acemetery. Here are solemn avenues of gigantic l
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