What to see in America . or 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 live oakswhose gnarled branches are feathered with ferns and parasiticplants, and
What to see in America . or 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 live oakswhose gnarled branches are feathered with ferns and parasiticplants, and draped with pendant swaying masses of grayfairy-like moss that are often four or five feet long. Theeffect is singularly weird in its charm, and the tombs, urns,and obelisks gleaming here and there among the shadows add to the impres-siveness. About one hun-dred and twenty-fivemiles up the river isx\ugusta, settled onlytwo years after Sa-vannah, and withsomething the samecharm in the breadthA Farmhoi ni and beauty of its. Georgia 179
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