Excerpt from Handy Guide to the Southeastern States: Including Florida Georgia, the Carolinas and the Gulf Coast Hamilton on the left, approach one another and separate the Upper from the Lower Bay. The round, brown fort in the water on the left of The Narrows is __fort Lafayette, built in 1812, and famous as a military prison during the Civil War. As the expanse of_ the Lower Bay spreads right and left, the long row of hotels and amusement places of South Beach is seen on the Staten Island shore, and on the left the houses of the Gravesend and Bath Beach shores. The two small islands ahead are devoted to quarantine patients treated for contagious diseases, and far beyond is seen the shore of New Jersey. The course sweeps slowly to the left until the open ocean becomes visible, and the ship' passes out past Sandy Hook, with the pleasure Villages of Coney Island, Brighton, and Manhattan beaches in plain view on the left. Steering outside of Scotland lightship, near where the international yacht races are run, the prow is pointed south, and all the evening the passenger is amused by the brilliantly lighted New Jersey shore, from Long Branch down past Asbury Park, almost to Barnegat. 'in the morning the ship is out of sight of land and headed for Cape Hatteras, whose lighthouse and low shore are sighted at dusk. Glimpses are caught next day of the Carolina coast, the lighthouses at.cape Lookout (entrance to New Berne, N. And Cape Fear (near Wilmington, N and, if circumstances and the tide are favof able, the bar off Charleston harbor is reached in time to cross it and make a safe trip -up the tortuous channel to the city before dark;' otherwise the ship anchors until daylight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.