Abstract

Jottings in Virginia

There are great new piers, storehouses, and coal-dumps at Newport News, Virginia and around them the dwellings of the workmen, with plenty more going up. The place has become a railway terminus, and, having deep water for ships without the annoyance of a bar for them to pass over, is to be made a great port. The age of short lines to tide-water and quick seizure of points of vantage on all the U.S. coasts has arrived. At quaint old Williamsburg, the seat of royal power in the colony of Virginia, is another trace of earthworks. There is an attractive glimpse of sundry steeples and gambrel roofs, some of which seem green with moss. The railroad does not take pains to go too close to its curiosities, but, after the manner of the Levite more than the good Samaritan, passes them by on the other side.