Appletons' Hand-Book of American Travel : Southern Tour ...
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It was subsequently laid out on a plan furnished from England, which was then considered of a very magnificent scale ; but the streets were narrow, and no provision was made for public squares. In this respect the city is still very de- ficient. But the general style of buildmg, which gives to each private dwelling a large court of its own, with trees and verandas, renders the want of public squares less sensibly felt. The city is regularly laid out, and extends about two miles in length, and n...early the same in breadth. The streets, which run parallel to each other from river to river, are gen- erally broad, and lined with beautiful shade-trees. But, wherever the visitor may go, whichever way he may turn, the charred and blackened ruins of many of the proud city's most noted buildings con- front the traveller at every step. Scarce a tower or steeple in the city that was not riddled with shot or shell, while the fierce conflagration of 1862 madC' a broad gap from river to river which it will require years to refill.
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