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60. This is St. George Street leading from the City Gates to the Plaza. Harriet Beecher Stowe in writing of St.
Augustine said: "If an old, sleepy, narrow-streeted Medieval town, with balconied houses, inner courts, and tressilated floors, had broken loose from its moorings in Spain, and floating across the ocean intact, had
stranded on a beach of the New World, that town would have been St. Augustine." That was a number of years ago. Now the city boasts of upwards of 10,000 people with from 40,000 to 50,000 winter visitors and palatial
hotels unexcelled in this country or Europe. |