The Land of the sky, and beyond . - improving railroad facilities havebrought it into close contact ffj with the cities of the Northand West, and a new uniondepot is in course of erectionfor the accommodation of thetravelling p n 1) 1 i c. At this])f)int in the lieart of the city,the Florida Central andPeninsidar Railroad hasits terminal, with largeyard facilities andwharves at which theNew York steamers ofthe Clyde line land andembark their passengersand freight, and fromJacksonville the FloridaCentral and Peninsularsends out branchesin all directions—north, through Sa-vannah and Colum-bia, t
The Land of the sky, and beyond . - improving railroad facilities havebrought it into close contact ffj with the cities of the Northand West, and a new uniondepot is in course of erectionfor the accommodation of thetravelling p n 1) 1 i c. At this])f)int in the lieart of the city,the Florida Central andPeninsidar Railroad hasits terminal, with largeyard facilities andwharves at which theNew York steamers ofthe Clyde line land andembark their passengersand freight, and fromJacksonville the FloridaCentral and Peninsularsends out branchesin all directions—north, through Sa-vannah and Colum-bia, to the highlandsof South the magniticent, towering mountain —-- r-peaks of North Carolina and Ten-nessee, and over the hills of Old Vir- ^ ^ to the cities of the North, by t ^^^^the Southern Railway system ; north- ?west via Everett, by vestibuled trainsto Cincinnati, passing throughINIacon, Atlanta, and Chattanooga. jover the hills of Georgia and the pic- ! ,^^turesque scenery of Tennessee, and ? Wluxuriant Kentucky; again throughEverett, by a through-car line, byMacon, Atlanta, Birmingham, jNIem- ;phis, on the bluffs of the Mississippi, |into the heart of Missouri and out to \^-^^fs^istxthe plains of Kansas ; and still againby another line to St. Louis, by Holly Springs, toChicago by the Illinois Central, and as far as Sioux City,Avith but one change of cars. To the west it stretches an arm through the l:)eautifulHill Countrv of Middle Florida, on its own line as faras the Chattahoochee River, where, forming a connec-tion with the Louisville and Nashville, it takes thetraveller through Pensac
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