BAY ST. AUGUSTINE E.F.

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SKETCHES
OF
ST. AUGUSTINE.

WITH A VIEW OF ITS

HISTORY AND ADVANTAGES
AS A

RESORT FOR INVALIDS.

BY
R. K. SEWALL.

NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR BY
GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 155 BROADWAY.
1848.
 

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by
George P. Putnam,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District
of New-York.

 
 
Leavitt, Trow & Co.,
Printers and Stereotypers,
49 Ann-street, N. Y.

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INTRODUCTION.

This brief account of one of the most interesting towns in this country,in many historical points of view, has been prepared to meet the wantsof those who may desire to learn something of the place in view of asojourn, or who may already have come hither in search of health.

The work makes no pretension to fullness of detail, nor to absoluteperfection in any particular. It is rather a glimpse at, than a fullhistory of, the place, though it gives such a connected view of thecourse of events, as to satisfy the curiosity of such as come among us,(and which every sojourner feels the want of,) so far as the lights wenow have can aid us in a knowledge of the past.

I have availed myself of such helps, in the few works written, as Icould find, which speak of the place.{4}

But the field of historical researched upon which I have entered, I findtoo extensive to be compressed in all its interesting particulars into awork of this sort. The gleanings, therefore, must for the presentsuffice.

THE AUTHOR.

St. Augustine, June 20, 1848.

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CONTENTS.