{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1785", "width": "2436", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class\\n1 (a\\nBook\\nrri\\n5\\nGoMhtN\\nCOKfRIGHT DEPOSIT.", "height": "1691", "width": "2378", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1691", "width": "2378", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1691", "width": "2378", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1691", "width": "2378", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "I HE climate of the East Coast of Florida\\nis nearer perfection than that of any\\nother place on earth.", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "SCENE IN Hotel grounds, Lake Worth.\\nShowing Royal Poinciana Tree in Bloom.", "height": "1691", "width": "2378", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "V\\nFLORIDA:\\nBEAUTIES OF THE EAST COAST\\nA Collection of Photographs,\\nWith Text by Mrs. H. K. INGRAM.\\nSt. Augustine,\\n1893.\\n^1^", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 18113, by Juseph Richardson, General Passenger Agent, for the\\nJacksonville, St. Augustine Indian River Railway.\\nTHE COMPLETE ART-PRINTING WORKS\\nOF THE\\nMATTHEWS-NORTHRUP CO.,\\nBUFFALO, N. V.\\n149S0 i8q3.", "height": "1691", "width": "2378", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "FLORIDA:\\nBEAUTIES OF THE EAST COAST.\\nText by Mrs. H. K. Ingram.\\nE who arrives for the first time in Florida has\\nreason to be delighted with the fine portal through\\nwhich he makes his entrance into the land of sud-\\nden revelations and rapturous surprises. The city\\nwhich meets him at the threshold of the State\\ngives cheering prophecy of the beauties that lie\\nwithin.\\nJACKSONVILLE,\\nsitting like a queen on a graceful bend of the St. Johns, receives\\ntribute from both river and ocean, as their waters contend before her\\nfor prominence in daily tides. As once to Rome, all roads lead to\\nJacksonville, and, with her 30,000 inhabitants, she welcomes all who\\nenter her gates from any road. She is the metropolis of the State\\na live, progressive business center, with an ideal social life that\\nreaches the height of gayety when her winter visitors throng her\\ngates. She is fair to look upon with her oak-shaded streets, where\\nthe mammoth boughs meet over-head, making long perspectives of\\nevergreen arches. From their branches hang festoons of gray\\nmoss that wave in every breeze like banners draped from the ceil-\\nings of a lofty hall. Her private homes are most attractive, but\\nher most conspicuous feature is the great number and high rank\\nof her winter hotels. They are substantial, comfortable structures\\nof the old regime, home-like and quiet, yet sociable and pro-\\ngressive. The fame of their management is well known over both\\ncontinents; for their guests come from all countries, and their\\nregisters, winter after winter, bear the most distinguished of living\\nnames.\\nThe years are not many since this tair city was the ultima Ihule\\nof the tourist. He enjoyed her fine shell drives, the entrancing\\nsails or rows on the peerless St. Johns, and the ideal social life of\\nhis hotel, without wish to explore Florida farther. If to these the\\nold trip up the Ocklawaha to Silver Springs were added, he became\\nforthwith a veteran traveler and an authority on Florida. But\\nthese days are past. The almost magical development of the\\nState has converted Jacksonville into a gate-way through which\\none enters the real Florida.\\nTo-day the traveler pauses in Jacksonville, if he be leisurely\\nand conservative, but he only pauses. The magic of the modern\\nAladdin s lamp has dotted this summer land with palaces sur-", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "passing the most marvelous of Scharazade s dreams. The same\\nmagical influence has spanned the country with parallel bars, by\\nwhich the traveler glides from point to point with all the celer-\\nity, and without the awkwardness, of seven-league boots. In\\nthis new era\\nST. AUGUSTINE\\nhas become the tourists Mecca. A line of rolling parlors, en\\nsuite, awaits his transportation, and he never learns a pilgrim s\\nweariness. The train makes its exit from Jacksonville through\\nthe Riverside suburb, and crosses the magnificent St. Johns on the\\ndraw-bridge of the Jacksonville, St. Augustine Indian River\\nRailway. This is a splendid triumph of modern engineering and a\\ncostly piece of work. From it is afforded a fine view up and down\\nthe river, and midway is presented, on looking back, the city\\nstretching along its banks, and the fine harbor, upon the improve-\\nment of which the National Government and the local authorities\\nof Duval County are spending large sums of money. The train\\nglides at last out on solid land on the east shore of the river, and\\nrushes on between hedges of Cherokee roses, orange groves, bits\\nof hammock stretches and pine forests, and in the short space of\\none hour the quaint old Spanish city is in sight. To him who is\\nlooking for a venerable, well-preserved ruin, the first glimpse of\\nthe town is disappointing. He is borne for some distance on the\\noutskirts of the city and sees nothing but the new, fresh look of\\na rapidly growing American town. On all sides are the signs not\\nonly of progress and the crude beginning of things, but of wealth\\nwealth that finishes and perfects as it goes, and relieves the air\\nof newness by giving it the settled look of permanency. As the\\ntrain approaches the station there rises in the mid-ground a per-\\nfectly proportioned but massive looking dome. It marks the site\\nof the Memorial Church. Beyond it, through lofty trees and\\nverdant openings, appear turrets and towers of various shapes and\\nsizes. They whet the appetite of the sight-seer, for, whether\\nancient or modern, this little city in its glimpses promises some-\\nthing unique. The traveler finds lu.xurious carriages, stylish\\nJehus and concrete pavement, smooth and clean. As he rolls\\nalong a street lined with oleanders twenty to thirty feet high,\\narbor vitae, hoary larches and cedars mingled with hedges of roses,\\nhe comes suddenly to the beautiful church he has half seen before.\\nIt is built of coquina, a material found on the shore and low-lying\\nislands of Florida s eastern coast. It is light gray in color, and\\nhas a venerable look, even when first e.xcavated. The impulse is\\nto call anything built of it an old stone building. Here, again,\\nis the suggestion of the ancient and modern newness without\\ncrudity, age without decay. The design of the church is a Greek\\ncross, and its fine dome, encircled by slender turrets, throws the\\nspell of the East over the beholder. A distant view of this build-\\ning is seen in the background of a view from the Loggia on\\nanother page. Farther up the street still over the floor-like\\npavement as he turns a corner, the traveler easily perceives\\nthat he is approaching the far-famed\\nHOTEL PONCE DE LEON.\\nThe oleander trees have given place to massive stone pillars,\\nrising from a substantial stone base and connected by long loops\\nof heavy iron chains of unique patterns. At short intervals, by\\ngraceful sweeps, concave niches are formed that furnish places for\\ngrowing palmettos, or other and rarer tropical growth. Just as\\nthis begins to grow monotonous, and he wonders at the extent of\\ngrounds thus lavishly carved from the very heart of a populous", "height": "1691", "width": "2378", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "city, the turning of anotlier corner brings him upon a scene\\nunparalleled in all his former travels at home or abroad. On one\\nside the park-like grounds, sparkling fountains, tropical verdure\\nand blooming plants mark the entrance grounds of one hotel.\\nBefore him the round tower, the kneeling balconies, the wide para-\\npets of a mediaeval castle, give a mere intimation of the dimensions\\nof another. At his left a gate-way, lofty, arched and grand in pro-\\nportions, as rich in its finishing and as iinposing in its entirety as\\nany of the triumphal arches of foreign cities. With delighted\\nbewilderment he recognizes that he is in the midst of that won-\\ndrous architectural group, the St. Augustine hotels.\\nThrough the arched gate-way he enters an enclosed court,\\nblooming at all times of the year with fragrance and beauty. On\\nstone walks he winds his way around a central fountain and basin.\\nAscending successive terraces of broad stone steps, he stands\\nbefore the elegant front of the Ponce de Leon. As he gazes\\nupward, before him is the grand doorway, surmounted by a far-\\nreaching arch an arch composed of Spanish shields in terra\\ncotta. Each shield bears Spanish devices and one large letter;\\nthe letters, combined, spell the name of the hotel and of the old\\nSpanish cavalier for whom it is christened Ponce de Leon. On\\neither side of the new arrival, stretching into far distances, rise\\nthe walls of the hotel. He is surrounded, shut into a small earthly\\nparadise, by them. All around his horizon are broad galleries and\\nwide windows with terra cotta cappings of beautiful designs.\\nMassive pillars support the galleries and make shaded nooks\\nand quiet corners that suggest the deep recesses of old castle\\ntowers. On every side are mediaeval emblems and suggestions of\\nsunny Spain. It takes but little imagination to people the\\nbalconies above with dark-eyed senoritas, and the verandas bel jw\\nwith spurred and booted cavaliers, fiery of eye and haughty of mien.\\nBut our traveler crosses the marble threshold and steps ever a\\ntesselated floor, inlaid with rare mosaic patterns done by skilled\\nItalian artisans. He finds himself in a lofty room whose ceilings are\\nsupported bygroupsof caryatides of classic design, and life size. He\\nfinds all the latest and most magical accessories of modern times\\nup to the present hour, and everything so perfectly adjusted that he\\nis almost saved the trouble of wishing ere his wishes are realized.\\nHe wanders about in a daze of Oriental magnificence, but always\\nmedieval in suggestion. He gazes through a vista of no less than\\nfive salons. He sits on luxurious divans, leans his elbow on tables\\nof onyx, gazes on paintings which are themselves whole stories of\\nluxury and Eastern magnificence. He stands before a mantel\\nmade of large slabs of onyx. He catches the perfume of fresh\\nroses that nod to him from porphyry vases and majolica bowls, fit\\nfor a princess boudoir. He looks at the ceiling over his head to\\nsee the story of the old cavalier, the fabled fountain of youth, the\\ncaravels that boldly crossed the seas, all wrought in fresco and\\npainting, till the very air about him breathes of vine-clad Castile\\nand royal Arragon.\\nHe ascends an inner terrace, and at his feet, in letters of cunning\\nmosaic, he reads in quaint rhyming couplets his welcome to an\\ninn. He dines ofl silver and porcelain of antique and costly pat-\\nterns. Over his head, on painted ceilings, he reads the same story of\\nknight and cavalier in detail, done by artists whose renown is world-\\nwide. He may have 700, or if need be. nearly 1,000 fellow-guests\\nto dine with him in the same room, for it is amply spacious for all.\\nHe reclines on an ivory bedstead, or a brass one, or one of satin\\nwood, upholstered in silk brocade with a fringe of heavy silken\\ntassels. His warm bath comes from an artesian well, bored to\\nsuch a depth that its waters issue forth at a high temperature,\\nheated by the internal fires of the earth.", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "He examines this building, asks questions of the informed and\\nfinds that lie is abiding in a monolith that this palace is one\\nsingle stone. It has been erected, like Solomon s temple, without\\nhammer or saw. It has been molded from the concrete of which\\nit is built. It is almost time-proof, entirely fire-proof, and so firm\\nand solid that it would nonplus an earthquake. From turret to\\nfoundation stone there is no sham, no imitation. All is solid mas-\\nsive stone, genuine terra cotta, real Italian marble, and the finest\\nselections of Mexican onyx, and but little of other materials is\\nemployed in its structure. This is equally true of the other two\\nhotels which had surprised our traveler on his arriv al.\\nIn one, The Cordova, is the famous sun-parlor, a room made\\nentirely of glass and luxuriously furnished, where invalids may\\nenjoy all the vivifying effects of sunlight, without being exposed\\nto the lightest touch of outside air. In the other, The Alcazar.\\nare the same Moorish designs and furnishings, but he finds here\\nan in-door swimming pool. It is deep and wide, and through it\\nruns a large stream of pure warm water. It is warm enough for\\nthe most delicate invalid in the coldest |anuary day. It is all\\nunder roof, and all most systematically and conveniently arranged\\nfor both sexes and all ages.\\nBut the acme is reached when all three of this unequaled group\\nis seen at night, ablaze from roof to base with thousands of elec-\\ntric lights. It is worth coming far to see.\\nHaving duly inspected the modern wonders in ancient settings,\\nour traveler may extend his strolls and will soon find himself in\\nthe narrow streets and peculiar structures of a foreign sea-port\\ntown. He has scarcely ceased to wonder at the queer jostling of\\nthe centuries, when he comes suddenly to the old city gates and\\nthe remains of the wall which once encompassed the original city.\\nSharply outlined against the sky, on the east, rises Fort Marion,\\nthe oldest fortification in the United States, built at an enormous\\nexpense by the King of Spain for the protection of his young\\ncolony. It IS the Mecca to which all tourists make an early p:\\ngrimage. It is a massive structure, unscathed by time, and even\\nnow is seemingly impregnable. It is built of coquina. that peculiar\\ncement found exclusively in Florida, and overlooks the bay. It\\nbears over the entrance the Spanish coat-of-arms and a Spanish\\nlegend. It has commanding watch-towers, from whose dizzy\\nheights may be seen vessels far out on the Atlantic. Nor is it\\nlacking in gloomy, sunless dungeons, with their traditions of skele-\\nton remains and other debris of blood-curdling suggestiveness.\\nIn its decay\\nIt hath a beauty to live away.\\nFrom the Fort runs the Sea Wall, passing the Old Slave Mar-\\nket and the cool, delightful Plaza. Here one may find rest be-\\nneath the shade of orange and oak, in the center of an old, me-\\ndi eval town. He has been transported, in the short space of an\\nhour, from the busy wharves of a growing American city to a\\nwalled town typical of continental Europe in the Middle Ages.\\nBefore him, as he sits beside the gushing waters of the artesian\\nwells, are the hoary walls of the old cathedral the oldest place\\nof worship in the United States crowned with its ancient belfry\\nand chime of bells over two hundred years old. Within is the\\nheavy silver lamp, containing the never-dying fire, which was\\nbrought from Spain by early worshippers, when Menendez and\\nDe Gourges vied in the cruelty of their revenges.\\nRadiating westward are the narrow streets, lined with over-\\nhanging balconies and on the east the smooth waters of Matan-\\nzas Bay dance in the sunlight. Across its glancing wavelets lies\\nAnastasia Island, and on its northern point, near the spot where", "height": "1691", "width": "2378", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Sir Francis Dralce once landed, stands the light-house. A short\\ndistance north of it are to be seen the ruins of the old Spanish\\nlight-house. A pleasant sail or an invigorating row lands the\\ntourist on the island beach, on which beats a surf unsurpassed\\nfor bathing and beauty on the entire length of the Atlantic coast.\\nOn the North Beach every retiring tide leaves a fine deposit of\\nocean treasures shells of rare loveliness and memorials from the\\nGulf Stream and the tropics, and the refreshing ocean breeze car-\\nries strength and healing on its wings, while an atmosphere\\ncharged with legend and story broods suggestively over all.\\nAn occasional black-robed nun from the convent, or the pass-\\ning by of a dark-eyed descendent of some Spanish cavalier, with\\nan unmistakably marked nationality in face and form, helps the\\ndelusion.\\nWhile weeks might be spent in the quaint old city, with each\\nday a new interest, a day s drive or walk to its chief attractions,\\nwill give one at least an idea of its historical interest.\\nNor is there less of interest to be found in the surrounding\\ncountry. A short distance out from St. Augustine at the little\\nplace, Moultrie, is the Carmona Vineyard seventy-five acres of\\ngrapes! This vineyard was set with White Niagaras in March,\\nand shipments of grapes were made \\\\n June of the following year.\\nThe second year the yield was two and a half tons per acre. The\\nprofusion of leaves peculiar to this variety gives to the broad\\nacres the look of a billowy sea of green. There are now 175 acres\\nof White Niagara grapes in the vicinity of Moultrie, which bid fair\\nto become one of the most profitable investments in the State-\\nThe industry has passed the experimental stage, and with the\\npresent facilities for reaching New York and Eastern markets,\\ngrape culture in Florida will in a few years lead the world. The\\nland lying between Jacksonville and St. Augustine is peculiarly\\nadapted for grape culture, and in a few years will probably be con-\\nverted into vineyards.\\nUnwearied with St. Augustine and its surroundings, but feeling\\nan added desire to explore farther, the delighted and wondering\\ntourist resumes the journey, and a few miles south of the old city\\nhe finds the little town of Hastings, by no means the least of his\\nsurprises. Here he comes upon cucumbers in December, tomatoes\\nin January, strawberries in February and other luxuries at equally\\nunaccustomed seasons. If he should come in summer he would find\\nwaving fields of green stretching seemingly for miles in the greatest\\nluxuriance, and a McCormick reaper and binder in full motion,\\ncutting the heavy rice that yields from 75 to 100 bushels per acre.\\nAll this on low pine-woods land that a few vears ago was covered\\nwith native growth. This is the result of intelligent agriculture and\\nartesian irrigation. The farm plant is 20,000 acres, and every acre\\nunder this treatment has become available and valuable. An\\navenue six miles long at once divides and displays this model farm.\\nThree artesian wells supply it with moisture. The preeminent suc-\\ncess of the owner has proved him a wise man in his generation.\\nA little farther on the railroad leaves the ocean and curving in-\\nward sweeps again toward the broad St. Johns, on whose banks is\\nsituated the city of Palatka. The Gem City, as its inhabitants\\ndelight to have it called. It stands on the western bank, and is a\\ntidy city with a population of 5,000, and of considerable impor-\\ntance as a railroad center. If our traveler desires to tarry here, he\\nwill easily find pleasant hotels, well managed and comfortable. If\\nhe be wise, he will not diverge from his course here, but will con-\\ntinue to inspect the East Coast Line. This will bring him in a few\\nmiles to a charming little town, fairly nestling in orange groves,\\na most romantic and poetic spot San Mateo. It looks out cheer-\\nily upon the river, and is all alive with beauty and bloom.", "height": "1708", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Farther on the journey reveals to our traveler the process by\\nwhich the eastern portion of the peninsula has been built up by\\nsuccessive ranges of sand dunes, behind which are caught, or shut\\nin, bodies of salt water misnamed rivers connected by inlets\\nwith the ocean, of which they are really arms. The strips of land\\nbetween them are sometimes narrow, sometimes several miles\\nwide. They are delightfully situated for winter or summer habita-\\ntions, offering by their peculiar positions the very perfection of\\nclimate, without isolation or inaccessibility.\\nFifty miles south of St. Augustine is such a peninsula, bounded\\non one side by the so-called river Halifax a body of water broad,\\nshallow and salt and on the other by the ocean. On the penin-\\nsula stands\\nORMOND-BY=THE=SEA.\\nThe peninsula is here quite wide. Along its eastern shore are\\norange groves whose fruit is famous dense forests of pine and\\nstretches of rich hammock. Here, most picturesquely situated.\\nis the Hotel Ormond. As a hotel, it is sufficient to say that to\\nthis neck of land civilization has pushed her latest and fullest\\nimprovements and here is a perfectly appointed hotel with all\\nthe usual accessories and under the best of management. No\\nother place combines in a higher degree all the distinctive\\nFlorida attractions, fine fruit, good fishing, safe boating, pleasant\\nwalks, the curious treasures of the beach, sea-bathing and driving;\\nthe latter, Ormond s great specialty. The roads are smooth and\\nhard, and the drives full of interest. There are long drives and\\nshort drives drives of from two to twenty miles on the smooth,\\nhard sea beach drives through groves of the golden orange\\ndrives through dense tropical forests to Spanish ruins drives to\\nancient causeways built by the slaves of planters long ago, and\\ndrives to the plantations of hospitable settlers, whose places are\\nreplete with the beauty and interest of Southern fruits and flowers.\\nThe hotels at Ormond open early for the accommodation of those\\nwho wish to enjoy the fruits before the shipping season has carried\\naway the choice?! selections. They remain open until spring is\\nwell advanced lor those to whom the more northern portions of\\nthe country are still too chilly. A newspaper correspondent for a\\nBoston paper, who has been making special inquiry into the health\\nof travelers in all parts of the country during the past season,\\nsays of the Hotel Ormond It is exceptionally favored as to\\nhealth and comfort, as it certainly is in patronage for it stands\\nwell up on a ridge, is light, airy and sunny, and being between the\\nHalifax and the ocean, gets the breeze from every quarter, as it\\nalso gets the sun first on one side and then on the other and all\\nthe guests are loud in their praises of it as a resort.\\nFarther south, on the opposite side of the river, is Daytona,\\nstanding on a high hammock. It. of course, has a river front. Its\\nclean shore, hard river bottom, free from sand and grass, and with\\nample depth of water; its beautiful shady driveway, extending under\\noaks and other forest trees for nine miles, with Holly Hill and\\nOrmond for termini, are among the attractions of Daytona proper.\\nOn the ocean shore of the peninsula across the river, which is here\\nspanned by two graceful bridges, is Silver Beach. Here\\nThe bridegroom, Sea,\\nIs toying with his wedded bride, the shore.\\nHe decorates her shining brow with shells,\\nAnd then retires to see how tine she looks.\\nThen, proud, runs up to kiss her.\\nHere are the sea-side cottages of several wealthy families, whose\\nhomes would do credit to Cape May or Newport. They are sur-\\nrounded by massive oaks, graceful palmettos, orange groves and", "height": "1691", "width": "2378", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "rose gardens, and protected from the rougher Atlantic winds by\\nthink of it, ye Northern fiower lovers a wind-break of\\noleanders I\\nThe next point of interest is New Smyrna, three miles farther\\nsouth, on another lagoon, known as the Hillsborough River. It is\\nan old historical settlement, ranking next in age to St. Augustine.\\nIt was here that Turnbull s celebrated Minorcan settlement was\\nlocated. Most interesting remains of their old indigo and sugar\\nplantations are still to be seen.\\nAt this point another diversion may for a moment tempt the\\ntraveler to leave the main track for a short detour. It is a short\\nroad that at this point connects the coast with the St. Johns\\nRiver. The river has been left thirty miles to the west and\\nthis road connects the two high-ways. It is part of the Jack-\\nsonville, St. Augustine Indian River Railway System, and leaves\\nthe main line at New Smyrna, penetrating a thriving country of\\norange groves and general products. The ride is diversified by\\nglimpses of pretty little towns as Glencoe, Orange City a real\\nNew England town, settled principally by Eastern Presbyterians\\nIndian Springs, Lake Helen and others, and terminating at Blue\\nSprings on the St. Johns.\\nThis road was built some years ago, as a sort of local necessity,\\nbecause Ormond, Daytona and New Smyrna have been for many\\nyears the favorite summer resorts of South Florida residents and\\norange growers from the interior. Many prefer during the heated\\nterm these fine beaches and the cool sea-breezes of this coast to\\nNorthern resorts.\\nIndian River. The largest and fairest of these enclosed bodies\\nof water is the far-famed Indian River. It bursts upon the view\\nfourteen miles south of New Smyrna. What is true of the other\\nrivers is preeminently true of this. Here the yachtsman, angler\\nand hunter find glorious sport. From the first fall frosts of\\nNorthern winter, this river is the retreat of clouds of ducks, and\\nis the home of the heron, bittern, crane, snipe and pelican. On\\nits shores are still seen the turkey, bear, deer and endless covies\\nof quail. No fisherman comes home empty-handed, for channel\\nbass, jew fish, sheepshead, drum, sea trout and a hundred other\\ngame fish are found the whole length of the river. At night, the\\nphosphorescent flashings from myriads of mullet make a weird\\npyrotechnic display. These attractions it has in common with\\nthe other bodies of water along the East Coast. But this length\\nof tranquil, lake-like water, with no vexing eddy or current to\\ndisturb its majestic repose, its banks lost in dense and deepest\\ngreen, and the ocean s lullaby ever sounding, is alone in its peer-\\nless beauty. Only the graceful heron, floating like a fragment of\\nfleecy cloud against the gloriously blue arch, and the strong-\\nwinged hawk, sweeping above the mangrove-shaded waters, have\\nfully explored the loveliness of this river. It attains its greatest\\nwidth at\\nTITUSVILLE,\\nthecounty seat and metropolisof Brev-ard County a thriving town\\nwith an ice plant, water works, electric lights and good stores.\\nHere both banks of the river are lined with orange groves, and the\\ntourist realizes that he is invading the home of the Indian River\\norange, the fruit of world-wide fame. As he goes southward the\\nscenery becomes more tropical and the scent of pineapples and\\nbananas is borne upon the air. He rides through long stretches\\nof palmetto groves and hammocks. The feathery palms, the\\nsandy soil, the openings that give wide views of the quiet glisten-\\ning waters, give Oriental eflfects, and he involuntarily looks for the\\ncamel to complete the picture.", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "Below Titusville is City Point, an Eden-like settlement, com-\\nposed largely of winter homes of wealthy Northerners. In this\\nvicinity it is possible to ride along the bank of the river through\\na continuous succession of orange groves for a distance of more\\nthan six miles without emerging from under their branches. The\\nbeauty of this section in early spring when the orange trees are in\\nbloom is almost oppressive.\\nCocoa, a thriving town a few miles farther south, where the\\nJaclcsonville, St. Augustine Indian River Railway over its\\nwharf receives freight and passengers from Merritt s Island and\\nthe peninsula, is the introduction to the beautiful Rockledge\\nsection. Just below here the river bank changes into a coquina\\nrock formation, and at\\nROCKLEDQE\\nthe channel is under the rugged perpendicular bank. The coquina\\nledges are worn away by the waves, and the roughness of the\\nshore is softened by the oak. magnolia and palmetto trees which\\noverhang the water. These trees have been left along the river\\nfront as a wind-break for the magnificent orange groves that have\\nmade the Rockledge hammock famous. Under their spreading\\nboughs a sturdy pedestrian can easily walk from Cocoa to Rockledge\\non a coquina pathway that resembles a pavement through a city\\npark. A carriage driveway is contemplated along this river bank,\\nconnecting City Point, Cocoa and Rockledge. This will skirt close\\nto the water; Indian River on one hand, elegant homes and orange\\ngroves on the other. If it should be built, it will, for sixteen miles,\\nbe such a ride as can be taken nowhere else on the continent.\\nThe tourist is now in the very heart of the orange country. If\\nhe be wise, he will tarry here awhile and feast on the nectar of the\\ngods. Nowhere can he spend a few weeks more delightfijlly.\\nFrom this point as a base he can make excursions, the memory of\\nwhich will be a joy to him forever. If he take a sail across the\\nriver, and land on the opposite shore a little south of Rockledge,\\nhe will come to Fairyland, on Merritt s Island. A long dock runs\\nfar out into the river, as a landing for steamboats. From this\\ndock a narrow canal about loo feet long gives space to the\\nsmall sail or row boats, and suddenly terminates in a small, clear\\nlake, as round as if marked out by Nature s compass, and half a\\nmile in width. Crossing this lake and disembarking, our explor-\\ning tourist has a novel experience for Florida he has a hill to\\nclimb. The land rises in a long slope to a high elevation. The\\nentire walk up the hill-side is beneath the shade of orange trees,\\nmagnolias, pawpaws and palms.\\nArrived at the top a new surprise awaits the traveler. He finds\\nwhat he thinks to be the Indian River before him. Bewildered,\\nhe looks, for he knows he has left it behind him. He is gazing at\\nits twin, the Banana River, a beautiful dark-blue sheet of water\\nrunning for miles parallel with the Indian River, the two lovingly\\nholding in their embrace the strip of paradise known as Merritt s\\nIsland. On the summit of this eminence is the owner s residence.\\nFrom its portico, far across the Banana, another shore is seen, the\\nhither coast of another long low strip of land. On its outer edge\\nbeats the Atlantic, the roar of the surf coming distinctly to the\\near. Standing in his door, the resident here may see vessels ply-\\ning upon three bodies of water the steamboats puffing along\\nIndian River; the graceful sail-boats dotting the Banana, and far\\nout at sea the smoke-stacks of ocean steamers. Around him are\\npineapples by the acre by the tens of thousands just beyond rise\\nthe dark green tops of orange trees, and broad banana leaves wave\\nbetween. Over the cottage lofty pawpaws rear their feathery\\ncrests, and in front an India rubber tree has wound its clinging", "height": "1686", "width": "2358", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "roots in a deadly embrace around an oak which once protected it.\\nA winding path leads to a sylvan park, where Nature is gardener-\\nin-chief, and gnarled oaks, festooned with moss and decked with\\ngreen orchids, shadow the scrub palmetto and grassy carpet.\\nWhat wonder that, in appreciative mood, the owner has named his\\nbroad domain Fairyland I\\nFarther down the river, in regions more intensely tropical, are\\nGeorgiana, Tropic and\\nEAU GALLIE,\\nOne of the loveliest places on Indian River, at the time of this\\nwriting the temporary southern terminus of the Jacksonville,\\nSt. Augustine Indian River Railway. Its natural advantages\\nare very considerable. Deep water laves the coquina rock which\\nforms the banks, while the town site rises with a gradual elevation\\nto a height of 45 feet. Churches, stores, hotels, a bank, telegraph\\noffice, ice plant, over thirty artesian wells, steam launches, all\\ncontribute to make the town a good business center. The rail-\\nway has here a dock at which freight is delivered to and received\\nfrom the boats which ply between the main-land and the pen-\\ninsula. The Eau Gallie River, which flows in a westerly direction\\nfrom .the Indian River, opens out into a spacious bay which\\nsparkles like a lustrous jewel in its matri.N; of emerald hued\\nbanks. On its placid bosom all the steamers and sailing craft\\nplying on Indian River can rest secure from wind and storm.\\nSince this is the present terminus of the railway, it will be\\nnecessary that our tour of observation be continued by water.\\nContinue we must, for even better things are promised farther\\nsouth. Attractions are so numerous beyond, that capital has\\nrecognized the trumpet call, and the road is being pushed as\\nrapidly as possible to Lake Worth, to which place it is under con-\\ntract for completion by November i, 1893.\\nFour miles farther south is\\nMELBOURNE,\\nwhere the river is separated from the Atlantic by only one-half\\na mile of sand dunes. These two points Eau Gallie and Mel-\\nbourne are so ambitious, and so watchful of each other s im-\\nprovements and progress, that the fierce rivalries of St. Louis and\\nChicago, or St. Paul and Minneapolis, are not more sincere or\\ne.xciting. Both are beautiful, energetic and thriving towns.\\nNot far south of this are the\\nINDIAN RIVER NARROWS,\\nThe paradise of the epicure, for here are miles of oyster beds, the\\nlargest, finest oysters on the continent, in quality unsurpassed, and\\nin quantity sufficient to feed a generation. The vegetable farms\\nand lemon groves of this section are remarkably productive.\\nHere is primeval Nature, and here are Nature s children, for we\\nhave reached the home of the Seminoles. the only Indian tribe in the\\nUnited States which has successfully defied all efforts of the govern-\\nment to remove them from their native hunting grounds. They still\\nroam the marshes and forests of the impenetrable Everglades, living\\non game, fish and the wild rice of the lakes. Their chief village is\\nback of Fort Pierce landing, at the end of the Narrows. They are\\noften seen emerging from the woods in their picturesque costumes\\nand peculiar turbans, coming to the Fort for ammunition and other\\nsupplies. They give in exchange alligator hides, deer skins, plumes\\nof the beautiful water birds and artistically dressed deer skins.", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "Other points of interest, but little farther on, are Ankona, Eden.\\nJensen, Waveland. etc.. where hundreds of acres of pineapples are\\nsilently changing sunlight, ozone and ether into the juices and\\nfragrance of this peerless fruit, and into dollars for Captain Rich-\\nards and his neighbors.\\nBelow Eden the river expands into St. Lucie Sound, into which\\nflows the St. Lucie River, a broad placid stream, navigable for\\ntwenty miles inland, and on whose banks are numerous tine pine-\\napple plantations and vegetable farms.\\nFor some distance before the St. Lucie reaches the Indian\\nRiver it runs nearly parallel with it, but gradually approaches it\\nuntil their waters mingle. In this way a long, narrow-pointed\\npeninsula is formed. It is known as Sewall s Point. But neither\\nthis geographical description, nor its matter-of-fact name, gives\\nhint of its picturesque loveliness. It is one of the most beautiful\\nspots on the river, and it is but a matter of time for its charms to\\nbe enhanced and brought out by the expenditure of money and\\ntaste, until its fame shall become world-wide, as it deserves.\\nA little farther on. and the slight wall that has kept back the\\nAtlantic is broken and the sea receives its own again through\\nSanta Lucia Inlet. The quiet, amber-colored waters, hiding coral\\nbeds and all beautiful mysteries and quaint forms of life in its\\nwitching depths, have attractions that neither land-locked lake nor\\ndeep sea stretches can give. It is here that that strange, unwieldy\\ncreature that link which binds the gigantic antediluvian animal\\nlife with the present the manatee or sea-cow. makes its home.\\nThe fishing in the St. Lucie River and at Santa Lucia inlet is justly\\ncelebrated for its excellence.\\nFarther on, the river again contracts to the Jupiter Narrows.\\nHere the stream is so narrow that only the green walls formed by\\nthe thick-growmg mangrove trees can be seen on either side. The\\nwater is perfectly transparent, and fish and oysters can be seen\\ndistinctly in the clear depths. From the Narrows the steamer\\nemerges into Hobe Sound, a noble sheet of water, and the Jupiter\\nLight-house booms up red and tall ahead. The main-land shore\\nswells into a range of high hills (Las Lomas) whose slopes are cov-\\nered with pineapples, and from whose summits are to be had\\nsuperb views of the ocean. At Palmer s Point, on the island side,\\nis the first cocoanut grove, of 2.000 young trees. Their spreading\\nfeathery tops make a fine show. The cocoanut tree is majestic,\\nand one learns to love the tall straight emblem of the tropics, even\\nafter the first novelty wears off. Often in the younger groves the\\noverhanging leaves, perfect as giant fern fronds, arch the pathway\\nin a single sweep of 20 feet perhaps no other plant of all the\\nearth has such Titanic grace.\\nA short distance south of this point Indian River makes its\\nescape into the ocean. It flows out through Jupiter Inlet. Here\\nis situated one of the largest light-houses on the Atlantic coast.\\nIt is supplied with a large, first-class revolving Fresnal lantern.\\nThe United States Signal Station is connected with the North by\\na government wire, and all south-bound shipping passes within a\\nfew miles of the inlet. It is situated 320 miles south of Jackson-\\nville, and is an ideal resort for sportsmen. The climate is perpet-\\nual spring; the scenery beautiful; and the fishing, boating and\\nhunting unequaled.\\nThe view from the light-house, lookingon the one side far out over\\nthe ocean, with the unique sight of the Gulf Stream; and on the\\nother spreading out over the cocoanut groves, the inlets and the\\nforests, with the Everglades and Lake Worth in the distance, may\\nwell be counted an event of a life-time.\\nContent for the present with a short railway trip, we come to\\nthe most novel and most beautiful region of all this novel and", "height": "1686", "width": "2358", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "beautiful Slate. It is a long, comparatively narrow, lake, running\\nparallel to the ocean and separated from it by a strip of ideal sea\\nbeach less than a mile, in some places less than one fourth of a\\nmile, in width. This is fair\\nLAKE WORTH.\\nThis lake most beautiful sheet of water, broken only by\\nPitts Island, which is located at the northern end of the lake\\nmight be called the altar before which the torrid and temperate\\nzones have joined in wedlock indissoluble. The most useful\\nand desirable products of the Northern States have here a con-\\ngenial home in daily touch with those loved of the equator.\\nA New Englander may find his potatoes, sweet corn, tomatoes\\nand other garden favorites, and can pluck, with scarcely a change\\nin his position, products that are usually claimed as Brazilian. He\\nfinds in his surroundings, as plentiful and as free as the water\\nsparkling before him, such strange neighbors as coffee, the tama-\\nrind, mango, pawpaw, guav a, banana, sapadillo, almond, custard\\napple, maumee apple, grape fruit, shaddock, Avacado pear and\\nother equally new acquaintances.\\nAnd these are all neighbors, actual residents, natives of the\\nsoil, not imported immigrants or exacting visitors to be tenderly\\ntreated. Giant relatives, equally at home, are the rubber tree,\\nmahogany, eucalyptus, cork tree and mimosa. All these, within\\nfort) hours travel of New York, to be reached this winter\\nby an all-rail trip, and to be enjoyed in a climate that is a per-\\npetual May. It was but a few years ago (less than a dozen)\\nthat the beauties of Lake Worth were at first dimly reported\\nty venturesome sportsmen who had gazed upon its unspeakable\\nloveliness.\\nTo-day the taste and labor of wealthy capitalists from East and\\nfrom West have lined its fair shores with elegant homes. One of\\nthese, the McCormick Place, has for the past few years been\\nfamous for its wondrous beauty. It is situated at Palm Beach, on\\nthe eastern shore of the lake, and faces westward or inland. It thus\\nreceives the cool air from the lake and the breezes from the At-\\nlantic, which is but a stroll distant. The entire estate comprises\\none hundred (loo) acres, all under high cultivation. It has a water\\nfront on both lake and ocean of 1.200 feet. In this lovely spot Mr.\\nMcCormick built a castle, so handsomely finished inside and out,\\nso tastefully designed and so elegantly furnished that one would\\nsuppose that he expected to entertain royalty within its walls.\\nPerhaps nowhere on the continent is so great a variety of vege-\\ntable growth presented in one locality as is here to be seen in full\\nperfection of lusty growth. The great variety, uncommon beauty\\nand prolific growth of the cacti alone is a marvel. The fruits are\\nnot a collection of trees, but a collection of groves, from the\\ngigantic cocoanut twenty years old to the dwarf guava bushes of\\ntwo summers growth. A complete list of the different kinds\\nwould make a catalogue.\\nThere is about this region, whether from the balminess of the\\nair, warm but invigorating, soft but bracing, or from the marvel-\\nous clearness of the water, the wondrous cloud effects, the tropical\\nvegetation, or all combined it is impossible to tell but there is\\na sort of spell about this locality. It holds and enthralls one with\\na constantly growing fascination. It is. as it were, a mental quick-\\nsand. The longer one remains, the more deeply and hopelessly\\ndoes he become fixed in his attachment, and the less becomes the\\npossibility of ever withdrawing from its influences.\\nIn this ravishing locality the same clear-sighted business in-\\nstinct that gave the wondering public the Ponce de Leon is", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "erecting another architectural triumph. The grounds, as laid\\nout, and the rare trees, shrubs and vines gathered and grouped\\nby Mr. McCormicl will not be disturbed more than is neces-\\nsary. But in place of Mr. McCormick s dwelling, fine as it is,\\nis rising an irrimense palatial hotel, capable of accommodating\\nfrom 500 to 600 guests. Workmen are now busy, and in the\\nwinter of 93 94 the\\nHOTEL ROYAL POINCIANA\\nwill open its doors for the reception of visitors. The hotel will\\nface the west. The grounds will be lighted with electricity pavil-\\nions and bathing houses will appear on the ocean beach a club\\nhouse, yacht club quarters and dancing and music pavilions on the\\nlake shore. In short, before February everything that money can\\nsecure for the health, comfort and pleasure of all visitors will be\\ncompleted and in perfect readiness.\\nThe hotel derives its name from the Poinciana Regia, a magnifi-\\ncent tropical tree growing in abundance all about the grounds and\\nin surrounding country. It is at all times an object of exceeding\\ngrace and beauty, but when blooming it is a blaze of splendor. It\\nhas been said that when in bloom this tree can be likened only to\\na house on fire. Unfortunately, it blooms in midsummer, so that\\nwinter tourists will not enjoy the sight.\\nThe Jacksonville, St. Augustine Indian River Railway will\\nbe finished to Lake Wortli by November ist, next. It will skirt\\nthe western shore of the lake until opposite Palm Beach. It will\\nbe one of the most beautiful and picturesque routes in the United\\nStates. For four miles, the lake, covered with yachts, sail-boats\\nand small steam craft, will form the foreground, while across its\\nblue waters will be seen on the opposite shore, villas and beautiful\\nresidences half hidden amid their surroundings of verdure and\\nblossom. It will be a ride with surroundings that cannot be dupli-\\ncated in America.\\nThus, much is promised for the next season. In the years that\\nare coming it is to be hoped that the East Coast Line will be,\\nindeed, a line bounding the eastern coast until the coast curves to\\nthe west. Until its happy consummation, the traveler mast be\\ncontent, in resuming his travels, to take a well-equipped, covered\\nstage coach. He continues his journey for about thirty-six hours\\nand finds himself at\\nBISCAYNE BAY.\\nOn the way he will break the monotony of his trip by a night s\\nrest at New River, one of the favorite haunts of the tarpon. Here\\nhe will enjoy, perforce, the novelty of camping for the night in\\ntrue Adirondack fashion. Arrived at Biscayne Bay, he has\\nreached, so to speak, the terminus of the peninsula of Florida,\\nand the most southern approachable portion of the main-land of\\nthe United States. He stands on the end of the great projecting\\ntoe of the Union. There is nothing left but the scattered frag-\\nments, or keys, that seem to have been disdainfully kicked from\\nthe main-land. They seem the neglected debris, left after the\\nbuilding of the peninsula. But, as of a broken mirror, each\\nfragment holds a picture, so in these islets are repeated the\\nbloom and fruitage and fragrance of the flowery land from which\\nthey have strayed. Many of them could be made ideal homes\\nor popular resorts.\\nBiscayne Bay is another of the shut-in bodies of water, but in\\nthis case the closing has not yet been accomplished. It sets into\\nthe coast but is not fully enclosed. It is the natural home of the", "height": "1686", "width": "2358", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "green turtle, and quantities of them are talcen here every year.\\nThe genuine tortoise shell is abundant. It is the finest body of\\nwater for cruising in the United States. It is from five to ten\\nmiles wide, forty miles long, and is not fed from old ocean by one\\nnarrow inlet, but by a score or more, one alone opposite Cocoanut\\nGrove, at Cape Florida, being ten miles wide. The water of the\\nbay is blue and clear, with an average depth of from six to ten feet\\na short distance from the shore. Its bottom is dotted here and\\nthere with sponges, coral and queer marine growths.\\nWhen Araby s daughter inspired Tom Moore s graceful pen he\\nnever dreamed of clearer depths in Oman s green waters. Nor\\nis the yachtsman confined to this beautiful bay. If he seeks a\\nwider range he can turn his sails and stand out of one of the\\ninlets for the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica or wherever fancy may\\ntake him.\\nAlong the shores of this beautiful bay are little settlements that\\nare beginning to feel the thrill of life, progress and enterprise\\nhaving touched them with magic wand. They have, even now,\\nnot only local habitations, but names Old Fort Dallas, Cutler,\\nErvanton, Miami, Cocoanut Grove and others. One of the first\\ninhabitants was Kirk Munroe, the great canoeist and well-known\\nauthor. He lived here when transportation was so difficult that\\nhe received all his mail from passing steamers en route for the\\nWest Indies, going ten miles out to sea in a sail-boat and inter-\\ncepting the mail boats twice each week.\\nOver all, the incomparable climate of Florida s east coast bends\\nlike a benediction. Surely, when the final verdict of creation, It\\nis good was pronounced, the climate of the East Coast of Florida\\nwas especially included for it is nearer perfection than that of\\nany other place on earth.", "height": "1713", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "ttim^-^.\\nJACKSONVILLE BRIDGE.", "height": "1686", "width": "2358", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ST. 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All tickets carry stop-over privil-\\neges within their limits\\nI OURISTS are advised to purchase tickets to St.\\nAugustine and make it their basing point. Excursion\\ntickets to all parts of Florida are on sale at the Hotel and\\nDepot Offices, and sleeping and parlor-car lines centralize\\nat this, the great fashionable rendezvous\\nI HIS Company has large bodies of timber and farming\\nA lands along the line of its railroad which it offers to\\nactual settlers upon easy terms and at fair prices.\\nJ. R. PARROTT, W. L. CRAWFORD,\\nVice-President. General Superintendent.\\nJOSEPH RICHARDSON,\\nGeneral Passenger Agent.\\nGeneral Offices, ST. AUGUSTINE.", "height": "1713", "width": "2362", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1706", "width": "2363", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "(I)\\nhy is Chocolate\\nnot more used in America?\\nCHOCOLATMENIER\\ncWOCOZ^rMEN/ER,\\nI St. People do not know how\\nto properly prepare Chocolate.\\nA pamphlet giving recipes, ami samples\\nof the Chocolate made by Menier, Paris,\\n(Noisiel,) Chocolat-Menier, will be sent\\nfree to any address.\\nMenier raises the berry on his own plan-\\ntations in Nicaragua.\\nMenier has his own Sugar Refineries.\\nMenier owns the Steamers transporting\\nthe raw products to his factories in\\nFrance and England.\\nMenier owns over 2000 Employees\\nHouses, comprising the entire town\\nof Noisiel, near Paris.\\nMenier does his own printing; in fact,\\neverything pertaining to the manufac-\\nture of Chocolat-rienier e.xcept\\nwood for cases, nails and foil, is\\nproduced on his own property.\\n2d. Americans are still bound\\nby the inveterate habit of using\\nTea, Coffee and Cocoa, which cre-\\nate stomachic debilities and are\\nnot in the true sense stimulants.\\nPure Chocolate unites in a perfect form\\nall the quaHties for a healthy and strength-\\nening liquid food, and contrary to the popu-\\nlar supposition, founded on tlie use of impiu e\\nmatter sold as chocolate, it is the Remedy\\npar excellence for Dyspepsia. A cup of\\nthe Chocolat=Atenier immediately after\\neating will produce digestion in three hours.\\nIt is recommended to every brain worker\\nin place of using tea and cofl ee.\\nChocolat=nenier offers what the most particukir epicures seek and all medical\\nmen desire a wholesome, agreeable food of a decided renovating power.\\nASK YOUR CROCER FOR\\nCHOCOLAT\\nMENIER\\nAnnml ,l\u00e2\u0080\u009e F.i. d 33 MILLION LBS.\\nSAMPLES SENTFREE. MENIER, N.Y\\nCocoa and Chocolate\\nARE NO MORE TO DE COMPARED WITH\\nEACH OTHER THAN\\nSkimmed Milk\\nto Pure Cream.\\nIf your Grocer has not Chocolat=Menier\\nto supply, kindly send name and address.\\nSample free. Mention this pamphlet.\\nAddress Director American Branch,\\nChocolat=Menier,\\n86 West Broadway, cor. Leonard St.\\nNew York City.", "height": "1713", "width": "2337", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "A LBERT W. ROBERT, Agent in Real Estate, of Palm Beach,\\nFlorida, will sell for Mr. Flagler the lots for dwelling and\\nbusiness purposes now offered in the new town\\nWEST PALM BEACH.\\nMr. Robert has for sale a good list of Lake Worth properties,\\noffered by individual owners; he is also the sole agent in Dade\\nCounty for the lands of\\nThe Florida Coast Line Canal Transportation Company,\\nThe Boston Florida Atlantic Coast Land Company,\\nThe Lake Worth Land Trust,\\nThe New River Land Trust.\\nThese lands extend the length of the County, from the St.\\nLucie River to Bay Biscayne, and are adapted, in their variety, to\\nthe cultivation of all the valuable crops peculiar to the East Coast\\nof Florida\\nMr. Robert will furnish especial information, maps, lists, etc.,\\nof the properties in his charge, upon application", "height": "1706", "width": "2363", "jp2-path": "florida00jack_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "The people who made this book throughout, including the engravings for it, would\\nlike to do some work for you. They have pleased a great many of the most fastidious\\ncustomers in the United States, and hope that they could please you.\\nThey endeavor to furnish the very best art and workmanship al prices which\\nalways make their work a good investment for the purchaser. It may pay you to\\ncorrespond with them, for there is nothing in the way of printing or engraving which\\nis outside of their line.\\nThe address is The Matthews-Northrup Co., Buffalo, N. 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