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Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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6,000,000 bushels ofoysters, amounting to nearly $4,000,000; 37,775 barrels of salt fish; 8,381,860 staves, 53,392,221shingles, and 57,496,^290 feet of lumber were also received. The Sea-board and Roanoke rail-road annually brings in more than 180.000 bales of cotton. STROLLING ABOUT NORFOLK. 593 out to the very waters edge, and the piers jutting from their front doors, withrustic arbors and awnings, where one might sit and woo the fresh sea-breeze;could see the gracefully tapering masts, and the massive walls of the warehouses,and could hear the rattling of the chains, and singing of sailors. Strolling back, we noted the barelegged negro boys sculling in the skiffswhich they had half-filled with oysters, and passed through streets entirely devotedto the establishments where the bivalve, torn from his shell, was packed in cansand stored to await his journey to the far West. Driving on the hard shell road,later in the evening, we passed long trains of fish-carts, in each of which lay a
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Map of the Virginia Peninsula. sleepy negro, growling if we asked one-half of the road; saw the fields where,during the civil war, the Confederates had prepared to defend Norfolk from ap-proach of the blue-coated soldiery byland—fields occupied by carefully-tilledfarms, near which were the cabin and garden patch of the freedman; saw evidenceson every hand of growth and progress, and found it hard, indeed, to convinceourselves that half a century had not passed since the war for the Unionclosed. The map given above shows the configuration of the Virginia peninsula, andthe location of Hampton Roads, one of the most superb expanses of land-lockedwater in the world. This grand refuge, in which all the navies of the worldmight at one time find shelter from storm, is but fifteen miles from Norfolk.Entering from the Atlantic, between the two capes of Virginia, Charles and OF THE 594 HAMPTON ROADS. ) Icnry, the ships of Newport, Smith, and Gosnold, the daring Enghsh explorersand colonists,

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