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Excerpt from A Descriptive Reading on St. Augustine: Illustrated by Twelve Lantern Slides
The visitor to St. Augustine may enjoy the con sciousness that the spot on which he stands has be hind it a longer stretch of authentic history than any other within the limits of the United States. It is indeed the oldest European settlement in America, having been founded by the famous Spanish com mander, Don Pedro Menendez, in 1565; forty-two years prior to the settlement of Jamestown, and fifty five years before the landing of the Pilgrims on Ply mouth Rock. Its history has been checkered and romantic in the highest degree it was from the very first a place of considerable note, and the theatre of interesting events; and it still possesses a curious aspect and ?avor of antiquity. Coming to it from bustling, active towns, one is conscious ofa complete and sudden change of time and place - as if the brief ride on steamer and railway had produced magic results, and landed him in some quaint, old, dead and - alive Spanish town of the Middle Ages. The large in?ux of wealthy settlers from the north has greatly altered the character of the city within the last few years but the smart modern villas still have the air of foreign intruders, and the quaint, romantic old city retains at once its individuality and its un likeness to anything else in America.
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