large stained-glass windows, is that it is a remarkably handsome interior.

A little to the rear, and facing Holt street, stands the old church, now used, I believe, as a school. It is a fair specimen of the Doric order and Grecian type.

On the corner of Reily street, in a large yard, well adorned with shrubbery, stands a mansion which has the most foreign appearance of any creation on the street. It is in the Italian style, and I am satisfied the architect must have got his inspiration from Norfolk's Cumberland Castle. Standing back in the garden which surrounds it, it makes a more creditable appearance than the parent structure. It was formerly the residence of the pastor of St. Mary's, whose individual property, I believe, it still remains.

Next to this I observed the building known as

ST. JOHN'S ACADEMY,

which has an excellent situation, but a rather awkwardlooking tower. A Protestant orphan asylum comes next. It stands on the corner of Walke street. There are two more of these institutions which give a home and protection to the fatherless in this city-one Protestant, and the other, which also does good work, under the supervision of the Catholic Church.

From Walke street to the bridge, Holt has a

DECIDEDLY AMERICAN

appearance. On the north side I passed a number of pretty cottages. One near the water is very elaborate,

and built of brick, terra-cotta and marble, with quite a display of colored glass. Each of these cottages has a small green in front, and the rustic fences which enclose some give them a very pleasing appearance.

On the south-east corner I noticed a palatial residence, one of the finest in the city. It is of pressed brick, plentifully faced with marble.

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At the foot of this street I crossed the wooden bridge

BRAMBLETON,

the latest addition to the city, now called East Norfolk. It is well situated between two lovely sheets of water— the one I crossed, which is known as Mahone Lake (and is, at high tide, well entitled to the term), and the Eastern Branch. It is already a pretty place, and when the trees which line nearly all its streets have the advantage of a few more years growth it will be remarkably handsome. Four of its many well laid out thoroughfares are already particularly noticeable. They are Willoughby, Park and Brambleton avenues and Lovett street. It was upon the first named that I found myself when I stepped off the bridge, and the first place that attracted my attention was the

HEMINWAY SCHOOL

and its magnificent stretch of green grass and original growth of stately pines, enclosed in a neat but substantial iron fence, which does so much towards beautifying this new part of the city.

The leading industry of this district, I should judge, after a ramble through it and observing the many acres of hot-houses filled with choice growing flowers, to be horticulture. Three florists have their gardens here.

Many wooden churches and two built of brick are already created. One of the latter is a pretty little Presbyterian church with a curious little belfry, and the other a Baptist with quite a handsome interior.

CHAPTER X.

WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT, FROM THE FACT THAT IT DESCRIBES SOME OF NORFOLK'S MOST INTERESTING AND PECULIAR PLACES AND LANDMARKS.

In this chapter I wish to point out spots and places in Norfolk that are unlike those of any other city, and which are likely to indelibly impress themselves upon the stranger as being among the leading features of the city. The first and most prominent among them is

MARKET SQUARE.

It is not a city's public square in the usual acceptation of the term, but two streets, three blocks long, on each side of the principal market, and is, without doubt, during certain hours each day, the busiest and most crowded place, of the same area, in Virginia or the Carolinas, for not only does most of the population of Norfolk and suburbs do their marketing and shopping here, but at

one end the two ferries which connect the two principal suburbs (Portsmouth and Berkley) pour forth masses of human freight to intermingle with this already dense crowd, and at the other end the street-car lines make a common centre, and it is also the only carriage, express and job wagon stand in the city. The well-stocked market is open every day from early morning to noon and on Saturday until ten at night. To see the huckster-stands and market wagons filled with the choicest of vegetables from the great truck farms of Virginia and North Carolina; the fish-stands, with the scaly products of the contiguous sounds, bays and rivers; game from the marshes of Currituck Sound, Chesapeake Bay and the great Dismal ;-is a sight worth seeing on a Saturday night, when hundreds of smoking, glaring torches illuminate these same stands; all the rest of the available space being occupied by

STREET ORATORS

in carriages, each supplied with great blazing lamps and surrounded by crowds, which adds no little to the busy and remarkable appearance of the square. Some harangue the multitude by proving that they have soap that will even remove the stains from the character of a New York "boodle alderman"; or medicine that will cure every disease from corns to consumption; or microscopes with which a man can look through a foot of plank; or cement that will mend anything from the main shaft of an ocean steamer to a broken heart.

There is no place in Norfolk where a better idea can

be formed, by contrast, of her improvement since the war than by

THE TWO FERRY-HOUSES

which stand side by side at the foot of Market Square. Both are owned by the same corporation. One was built before the war, and is contracted, low in pitch, built of wood, and has a decidedly cheap appearance; is devoid of all ornamentation as well as comfort, and for years has been permitted to disfigure this site, which it does yet, but people are no longer forced to go through its unhospitable, barn-like quarters. The new one just erected and now in daily use has a lofty archway, and its outside, constructed of ornamental iron, has a cheerful look. Being of generous width, it is roomy and comfortable, has well-appointed waiting-rooms, and the interior is finished in woods from the adjoining Southern forests.

There are two street crossings in Norfolk which no stranger should fail to see, and though they are both made famous on account of the buildings that occupy the respective corners, they are so unlike that comparison would be ludicrous. The first combines all the stateliness, the solemnity and quiet of the most select, tradition-haunted quarter of an English cathedral town, while the other, with one corner excepted, has all the stir and blending of business that forms the prominent feature of the wildest and newest Western city. The first of these crossings presents, without question,