. Virginia in black and white . section with the nearest sea-port for the exporting ofgrain, tobacco, flour and other products. The city has a population of 8,000 ;it is provided with an excellent system of water works, schools, churches,banking facilities and other institutions of large and growing cities. Norfolk, Va., twelve miles from Newport News, across Hampton Roads,and the eastern terminus of the Chesapeake & Ohio, after Richmond, is themost populous city of Virginia, and has many points of historic interest. Italso has an extensive trade, large quantities of oysters, fish, early fruit
. Virginia in black and white . section with the nearest sea-port for the exporting ofgrain, tobacco, flour and other products. The city has a population of 8,000 ;it is provided with an excellent system of water works, schools, churches,banking facilities and other institutions of large and growing cities. Norfolk, Va., twelve miles from Newport News, across Hampton Roads,and the eastern terminus of the Chesapeake & Ohio, after Richmond, is themost populous city of Virginia, and has many points of historic interest. Italso has an extensive trade, large quantities of oysters, fish, early fruits andvegetables being brought thither by the railways and canals and shipped toNorthern ports. It is the third cotton port in the United States, and leadsthe South in the lumber trade. In addition to fine railway facilities, steam-ship lines connect the city with New York, Boston, Providence, Baltimore,Washington, etc. At Portsmouth, across the Elizabeth River, is the GosportNavy Yard and the United States I^aval 59 VIRGINIAS WEALTH,
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