{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3187", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "^A %J^\\nr\\n;^.7:^:\\nV.\\nV*\\n0", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": ":r.\\n\\\\V\\nxV\\nc5\\nC-.\\n0. s xS-\\n-0\\n^A s^^\\n.0\\n.,vV -^V\\n\\\\4^\\nON^\\nxxV V", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "SUNLAND,\\nMANATEE RIVER, GULF COAST OF SOUTH\\nFLORIDA:\\n/TS CLIMATE, SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS.\\nThe Land of the Orange and Guava,\\nThe P.ne-Api-le, Date and Cassava.\\nE3r S^a^IvIITTEIj C T:T^I3:.A.^v!r.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "PART OF THE GULF X OAST OF FLORIDA.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "FLORIDA:\\nPAST AND PRESENT,\\nTOGETHER WITH NOTES FROM\\nSUNLAND.\\nON THE\\nManatee River, Gulf Coast\\nOF\\nSOUTH FLORIDA:\\nCLIMATE, SOIL, AA^D PRODUCTIONS.\\nThe Land of the Orange and Ouava,\\nThe Pine-Apple, Date, and Cassava.\\nILLUSTRATED. v- cOPv^ CHj-^.^f^\\nI, OFC 2.2 iS33\\nJACKSONVILLF., FLA.\\nASHMEfln BRDTHERS,\\n18S3.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Kntered according to Act of Congress, in the year X8S3,\\nBy SAMUEL C. UPHAM,\\n..e Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.\\nF3n", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "^7i\\nPF\\n^Po\\nMarion Foster,\\nSamuel Zenas, and I UPHAM,\\nCharles Henry J\\nTHRFK l.IVINC LINKS IN THE CHAIN THAT BINDS MR TO LIFE, THIS\\nBOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY\\nTHEIR FATHER,\\nTHE AUTHOR.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nTwo or three letters written by myself to\\nfriends at the North having found their way into\\nprint, I have been literally flooded with letters\\nduring the past six months, from all sections of\\nthe Union and British Provinces, asking for in-\\nformation in relation to the Manatee region of\\nFlorida. Hundreds have been replied to, and\\nmany remain unanswered for want of time. This\\nlittle book has been written with the belief that it\\nwill answer the requirements of my numerous cor-\\nrespondents, and also prove a welcome guest to\\nothers who desire reliable information concerning\\nthis portion of the Gulf coast of South Florida.\\nWith these brief remarks I cast my little waif\\nnpon the tide of public opinion, with the hope\\nthat favorable breezes will waft it into the hands\\nof tliose who will be benefited by its perusal.\\nSuNNYsiDF. Cottage,\\nBraidentczvn, Florida, April i, i8Si.\\nvi", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nTo THE Enlarged Edition.\\nWhen I published the little brochure Notes\\nfrom Sunland two years ago, the Gulf Coast\\nof South Florida was, comparatively speaking, a\\nterra ificogniia. The favor with which that work\\nhas been received\u00e2\u0080\u0094 having passed through three\\neditions and at -the request of numerous corres-\\npondents in the United States, Canada, and Con-\\ntmental Europe, I have concluded to enlarge the\\nwork and make it more general in its scope\\nthe former work being confined exclusively to the\\nManatee region. In reply to the question from\\ndifferent sections of the Union Are you as well\\npleased with the Manatee region as when you wrote\\nNotes from Sunland I reply, emphatically,\\nYes The longer I live here the more thoroughly\\nI am convinced that it is the Sanitarium of the\\nworld. In addition to twenty-five pages of letter-\\nvii", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "viii Preface to the Enlarged Edition.\\npress, I have added an additional illustration and\\na map of the Gulf coast of South Florida. I have\\nplaced the publication of the book in the hands\\nof those well-known and reliable publishers, the\\nAshmead Brothers, of Jacksonville, Fla., who\\nwill supply the book to the trade and also furnish\\nit to the public. With many thanks for the pa-\\ntronage bestowed upon my former book, I trust\\nthe present will be found equally acceptable\\nSamuel C. Upham.\\nBraidentown, Fla., August, i88j.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nIndians and Alligators-Dade s Massacre-Ponce de\\nLeon AND the Fountain of Youth -De Soto and\\nEl Dorado -Florida Exchanged for Cuba-Pen-\\nSAcoLA Captured by General Jackson-Florida\\nPurchased bvthe United States-Secedes from the\\nUnion Reconstructed.\\nThirty years ago the word Florida was synony-\\nmous with mosquitoes, alligators, snakes, and In-\\ndians. As a part of this Union, it was at that\\ntime considered financially a worthless sand-spit,\\nwhich had cost our Government fifty million dol-\\nlars and many lives in the almost fruitless effort\\nto rescue it from the hands of the wily Creeks\\nand Seminoles, who occupied the middle and\\nsouthern portions of the State. From the date of\\nDade s massacre by Osceola s band near Brooks-\\nville, in December, 1835, which sent a thrill of\\nhorror throughout the length and breadth of our\\nland, to the surrender of Billy Bowlegs in 1858 a\\nperiod of nearly twenty-five years, war was waged\\nby our Government under the leadership of Gen-\\nerals Worth, Scott, Harney, Taylor, and their sub-\\nordinates, with the result above stated.\\nIn order to fully understand and appreciate the\\n9", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10 Florida^ Past and Present.\\npresent condition of Florida, some little knowl-\\nedge of her history is indispensable for without\\nsuch knowledge, thesparseness of the present popu-\\nlation of the State is inexplicable, when taken in\\nconnection with its genial climate, its natural fer-\\ntility, and the immense scope of its possible agri-\\ncultural production. If Florida possesses so great\\na variety and power of vegetable growth, and such\\na desirable climate, why is it not more densely\\npopulated? is a question answered only by a\\nglance at her past history.\\nThe honor due to the first discovery of the land\\nwhich now constitutes the southern extremity of\\nthe United States is generally awarded to that\\nfamous and eccentric old Spanish adventurer, Juan\\nPonce de Leon. Nevertheless, the validity of his\\nclaim to that honor is liable to some dispute.\\nSeveral authorities of very good credit maintain\\nthat Sebastian Cabot, in the year 1497, traced the\\nwhole line of the American coast as far southward\\nas 36\u00c2\u00b0 9 north latitude and Peter Martyr avers\\nthat he sailed to the west of the meridian of Cuba.\\nFrom this account it does not appear that Cabot\\nproceeded further southward than the mouth of\\nthe Chesapeake Bay, the latitude of which corres-\\nponds nearly with that of the Straits of Gibraltar,\\nand the longitude with that of the eastern ex-\\ntremity of Cuba. It can scarcely be doubted that\\nPonce de Leon was the first European who landed", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Florida, Past and Present. n\\non any part of that ground which is now occupied\\nby the Southern States of our Republic. The\\npurpose for which he visited this country has ex-\\nposed his memory to no little ridicule but his\\nchildish delusion is entitled to more indulgence\\nand respect than the sordid and hypocritical mo-\\ntives which induced so many of his countrymen to\\nbecome explorers and crusaders in America. Juan\\nPonce, for the purpose of discovering the location\\nof the Fountain of Youth, set sail from Porto\\nRico, on the 3d day of March, 1512. After a\\nshort voyage he came to a country covered with\\nflowers and verdure, and as the day of his discovery\\nhappened to be Palm Sunday, called by the\\nSpaniards Pasqua Florida, he bestowed the name\\nof Florida on the country in commemoration of\\nthis circumstance. Thus the first European dis-\\ncovery of Florida took place on the. second day of\\nApril, 15 1 2.\\nThe next visit to Florida by Europeans was\\nmade in the year 1520, by Lucas Vasquez de Ayl-\\nlon, who kidnapped one hundred and thirty In-\\ndians and sailed for San Domingo, where he sold\\nthem as slaves. In the year 1524, Giovanni da\\nVerazzano, a Florentine sea-captain in the ser-\\nvice of the French Government, coasted from\\nFlorida as high as Cape Breton.\\nOn the 17th day of June, 1527, Pamphilo de\\nNarvaez left Spain with five ships and six hundred", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12 Florida, Past and Present.\\nmen, being authorized by the Spanish Govern-\\nment to explore and take possession of all the\\nlands between Rio de las Palmas and Cape Flor-\\nida, The fleet was much damaged by a hurri-\\ncane, and was obliged to remain at Cuba for\\nmore than six months to be refitted. In February,\\n1528, Pamphilo again embarked; and after a\\nshort and prosperous voyage, landed his army at\\nthe bay of Santa Cruz, Florida. Having formally\\ntaken possession of the country, and proved that he\\nwas in earnest by pillaging some of the villages,\\nPamphilo began to interrogate the natives respect-\\ning the precise locality of that immense deposit of\\ngold which he expected to find in Florida. In\\ntheir answers to these inquiries, the Indians, wish-\\ning to hasten the departure of their unwelcome\\nguests, directed the gold-hunters to a distant re-\\ngion called Apalacha, assuring them that the\\nshining metal could there be obtained in the\\ngreatest abundance. After a wearisome march,\\nthe Spaniards reached the designated place on\\nthe 26th day of June. The ungrateful behavior\\nof the Spaniards soon provoked the hostility of\\nthe natives, and before they had an opportunity\\nto make any mineralogical researches Pamphilo\\nwas compelled to retreat. While endeavoring to\\nmake his escape to the seashore, he was closely\\npursued by the natives, who killed two hundred of\\nhis men about one-third of the whole number.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Florida^ Past and Present. 13\\nThe whole country being aroused, Pamphilo\\nfound it impossible to return to his ships, which\\nwere probably destroyed by the Indians. The\\nSpaniards, therefore, took the shortest route to\\nthe coast, and came to the bay now known as St.\\nMarks. The Apalachian Indians being satisfied\\nwith driving the intruders from their territory,\\nabandoned the pursuit when that object was\\ngained. They arrived at St. Marks in a starving\\ncondition, their only food being horse-flesh. All\\ntheir ingenuity was now employed to effect some\\nmeans of escape from the country. They erected\\na forge on the beach, and, with great toil and diffi-\\nculty, converted their swords, lance-heads, stirrups,\\nand bridle-bits into nails, saws, and hatchets.\\nHaving thus provided themselves with the proper\\ninstruments, they felled trees, shaped the timber,\\nand finally constructed several very inelegant spe-\\ncimens of marine architecture. In the meanwhile\\nall their horses were consumed for food; and\\nwhen they embarked in their rude batteaux, their\\nthin, ghastly. Tanner-like appearance might have\\nreminded a spectator of that shadowy boat-load\\nof magnanimous heroes so graphically de-\\nscribed by Virgil in the Sixth Book of his celebra-\\nted Epic. All the boats were subsequently\\nwrecked near the mouth of the Mississippi, and\\nall on board perished, except Cabeca de Vaca,\\nthe treasurer of the expedition, and four common", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 Florida, Fast and Frcscnt.\\nsoldiers. The survivors, after enduring many toils\\nand sufferings, finally reached Spain in August,\\n1537.\\nIn the latter part of May, 1539, Hernando de\\nSoto landed his troops on the eastern shore of\\nHillsborough Bay, above the mouth of the Little\\nManatee River, and commenced his toilsome over-\\nland march, which ended in his death and burial\\nin the Mississippi River, on the 5th day of June,\\n1542, three years and one month afterward. In\\n1562 it is probable that a temporary settlement\\nwas formed near the mouth of the St. Johns River\\nby Ribault, a Frenchman.\\nIn 1564, under the protection of Admiral\\nColigny, a settlement of Huguenots was formed\\nunder the leadership of Lardonierre, on the south\\nbank of the St. Johns, about six leagues from its\\nmouth. This settlement was called Caroline, and\\nwas completely destroyed by the Spaniards under\\nMenendez in 1565, who massacred all that escaped\\ndeath in the fight, not as Frenchmen, but as\\nheretics. This murderous act was fully avenged\\nby a Frenchman De Gourges who, in 1659, led\\nan expedition especially against Fort Caroline,\\nand massacred the Spanish garrison, not as\\nSpaniards, but as cut-throats and murderers. In\\n1565 the same Menendez founded a Spanish col-\\nony at St. Augustine, thus establishing the first\\nEuropean town on the continent of America.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Florida, Past and Present. 15\\nIn 1584, as the result of various expeditions,\\nthe area of Spanish occupation and conquest had\\nbecome so extended that the authority of Spain\\nwas acknowledged by the natives, not only\\nthroughout Florida, but as far west as the Missis-\\nsippi and as far north as the mountains of Geor-\\ngia.\\nIn 1 5 86, St. Augustine was attacked and plun\\ndered by a party of English adventurers under Sii\\nFrancis Drake. In 161 1, it was pillaged by the\\nIndians, and in 1665 was sacked by another party\\nof English pirates, led by the freebooter, Davis.\\nIn 1689, Pensacola was settled by the Spanish.\\nIn 1702, St. Augustine was unsuccessfully at-\\ntacked by Governor Moore, of the English colony\\nof South Carolina. In 1725, Colonel Palmer, of\\nGeorgia, also failed in an effort to capture the\\ncity, and in 1740, General Oglethorpe, of Geor-\\ngia, was signally repulsed in a similar undertaking.\\nIn 1763, the whole territory of Florida was\\nceded by Spain to Great Britain in exchange for\\nCuba but the entire population of the territory\\nat that time did not exceed six hundred.\\nIn 1767, Dr. Trumbull, an English colonist,\\nlocated at New Smyrna, imported fifteen hun-\\ndred Corsicans and Minorcans, having deluded\\nthem by unstinted promises of land and employ-\\nment at high wages, and then subjected them to a\\nsystem of oppression, similar and scarce less", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1 6 Florida, Past arid Present,\\nsevere than slavery, till after a lapse of some tenf\\nyears they escaped in a body from his servitude\\nand betook themselves to St. Augustine, where\\nthey settled down, and ultimately became a prom-\\ninent and valuable element of the population of\\nthat section.^*\\nIn 1781, the Spanish captured Pensacola, and\\nthe English again lost possession of Florida. In\\n1 784, the territory was once more formally ceded\\nto Spain. In 1812, Fernandina capitulated to the\\ntroops of the United States, but was, during the\\nfollowing year, re-delivered to the Spanish Gov*\\nernment.\\nIn 1 81 4, the English forces, under the command\\noi Colonel Nichols, entered and manned the forts^\\nof l*ensacola, although the whole territory was\\nnominally under the control of Spain and in\\n181 8, General Jackson attacked and captured\\nPensacola in behalf of the United States.\\nIn 1 819, Florida was purchased by the United\\nStates, and was formally ceded by Spain. In\\n1822, a territorial government was established\\nin 1845, Florida was admitted into the Union,\\nand in January, 1861, she seceded.\\nIn the language of the talented and lamented\\nJ. S. Adams What a picture does this brief ab-\\nstract of the leading features in the history of\\nFlorida present Discovered by Ponce de Leon\\nin 1512J permanently settled in 1565; ceded to", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "J^/orida, Fast and Present. 17\\nGreat Britain in 1763, with a population of only\\nsix hundred, after a colonial existence of two\\nhundred years re-ceded to Spain in 1 784 sold\\nand ceded to the United States in 1819 receiv-\\ning a territorial government in 1822 admitted to\\nthe Union in 1845; seceding in 1861 and re-\\nconstructed [in 1868 sacked and pillaged re-\\npeatedly by Europeans; shifting its nationality\\nfrom time to time, and losing almost its entire\\npopulation by each change harassed and plun-\\ndered by repeated Indian wars from 181 6 to 1858,\\nand just as prosperity began to dawn, plunged un-\\nnecessarily into the useless slaughter of a hopeless\\nrebellion, she has suffered every evil, political\\nand social, that does not involve absolute extinc-\\ntion. Is it, then, a matter of surprise that\\nFlorida is so sparsely populated?", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\n-Geographical Position and Boundaries of Florida\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Area and Population\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Indians in Florida-\\nClimate, S OiL,AND Productions-The Rainy Sea-\\nson-Florida as a Health Resort-Classification\\nOF Lands-School System and Churches-Swamp\\nLands Sold to Disston\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Religion in Florida.\\nFlorida lies bet^yeen the degrees of twenty-\\nfive and thirty-one north latitude, and eighty to\\neighty-eight west longitude from Greenwich. The\\nnorthern boundary being nearly three hundred\\nand fifty miles from east to west, and its leno-th\\nfrom north to south, nearly four hundred mifes.\\nIt IS m the same latitude as Central Arabia,\\nNorthern Hindostan, the Desert of Sahara, the\\nnorthern portion of Burmah, the southern part of\\nChina and Northern Mexico. The average width\\nof the peninsula is about eighty miles, and every\\npart IS tanned by either the Trade or Gulf winds\\nrendering the air delightfully pleasant in mid-\\nsummer. The most marked geographical feature\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of the State is the enormous extent of coastUne\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthe Atlantic and Gulf exceeding eleven hundred\\nmiles, with numerous large bays, offering great\\nfacilities for commercial intercourse. The north-\\ni8", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Florida J Past and Present. 19\\nern part of the State is hilly and rolling. Mid-\\nway of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, an elevated\\nridge extends through Middle and South Florida\\nto Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades, grad-\\nually sloping to the Atlantic Ocean on the east\\nand to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico on\\nthe west. The elevated lands are mostly pine,\\ninterspersed with black-jack, post, and water-oak.\\nAt the base and along the water courses, are rich\\nhammock lands bordered with flat and rolling-\\nprairie, with the everlasting scrub palmetto every-\\nwhere. The southern portion of the State is at\\nthis time a vast cattle range, embracing thousands\\nof acres on which a surveyor s chain has never\\nfallen.\\nIn i860, the population of Florida was 140,000;\\nin 1S80, it was 267,000, and at this time, it is\\nprobably in round numbers 300,000. When the\\nvast area of the State, sixty thousand square miles,\\ncomprising nearly thirty-eight million acres of\\nland, is taken into consideration, it will be seen\\nthat we are not badly crowded. The sale by Gov-\\nernor Bloxham of four million acres of swamp\\nland to the Disston and Anglo-German syndi-\\ncates is a mere bagatelle.\\nThe county in which I reside Manatee is\\nnearly as large as the combined States of Con-\\nnecticut and Rhode Island. It is truly a county\\nof magnificent distances, the county seat,", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": ".20 Floriday Fust and Present.\\nPine Level, being forty mile^ south of the villages\\nof Braidentown and Manatee, on its northern\\nborder. No pent-up Utica contracts our\\npowers. We do things on a large scale. We\\nraise the most luscious oranges, the largest water-\\nmelons, and the most appetizing pineapples and\\nbananas on the face of the earth and I do not\\nthink I elongate the truth when I say, that in\\npoint of size our alligators, mosquitoes, and\\ngrasshoppers will compare favorably with those\\nof any other country. Our frogs are also as\\nsprightly as Mark Twain s jumping frog of the\\nCalaveras. Our cucumbers, tomatoes, snap-\\nbeans, squashes, and cabbages reach the cities of\\nthe North and West three months in advance of\\nany other State of the Union.\\nIf there is one thing above all others of which\\nwe feel justly proud, it is our superb climate. The\\nglorious climate of California, and the sunny\\nclime and golden skies of Italy bear no compari-\\nson with it. It is indescribable, and must be seen\\nand felt in order to be fully appreciated. A Bap-\\ntist clergyman Hard-shell who visited Braiden-\\ntawn last winter, was so fascinated and infatuated\\nwith the climate and surroundings _that he said he\\nverily believed that he was then nearer Paradise\\nthan he ever expected to be again while in the\\nilesh.\\nA timid person occasionally asks, Are there", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Florida, Past and Present. 21\\nIndians still in Florida A remnant of the once\\nwarlike Creeks and Seminoles\u00e2\u0080\u0094 scarcely two hun-\\ndred souls, including males, squaws, and papooses-\\nstill have an abiding place on the Caloosahatchee,\\nthe Kissimmee, and in the Big Cypress Swamp, south\\nof Lake Okeechobee. They are peaceably dis-\\nposed, and only mingle with the whites when they\\nvisit the country stores to dispose of their peltry\\nand game and replenish their ammunition.\\nChipco and the elder Tigertail, two of their former\\nchiefs, have been called to the happjr hunting-\\ngrounds during the past two years. The for-\\nmer was a centenarian, having attained the green\\nold age of one hundred and ten years. He par-\\nticipated in the Dade massacre, near Brooksville,\\nin 1835. The latter died by the visitation of\\nGod, having been killed by lightning while cross-\\ning the Kissimmee in his canoe. The Indians\\nhave several negro slaves in their secluded camps,\\nwho have never been informed that the Emanci-\\npation Proclamation of the martyred Lincoln\\nloosened their shackles and made them free men.\\nThe questions are frequently asked: AVhat\\ncrops can you raise in Florida? What can be\\ngrown on your soil? The agricultural, horti-\\ncultural, and pomological products of Florida are\\nmore varied than those of any other State of the\\nUnion. The northern, northeastern, and north-\\nwestern parts of the State, as well as Middle Flor-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "2 2 ^i orida, Fast and Frese7it,\\nida, are admirably adapted to the cultivation of\\noats, barley, corn, Irish potatoes, cotton, and\\ntobacco. At the Atlanta Exposition, two years\\nago, Florida was awarded the first premium for\\nsea island cotton, rice, and sugar. The peach,\\nplum, Le Conte pear, several varieties of the apple\\nand grape, and all the small fruits are indigenous\\nto the soil and climate of those portions of the\\nState. South Florida, composed of the counties\\nof Hernando, Sumter, Orange, Volusia, Brevard,\\nPolk, Hillsborough, Manatee, Monroe, and Dade\\nis the land of the orange and all semi-tropical\\nfruits. The guava, pineapple, banana, cocoanut,\\ndate, sugar-apple, sapodilla, mango, alligator-\\npear, and other tropical fruits thrive admirably\\nm the lower counties, south of the twenty-eighth\\ndegree of latitude. South Florida is also the nat-\\nural home of the sugar-cane. There it ratoons\\nfrom SIX to eight years and tassels. The cultiva-\\ntion of early vegetables for the northern and\\nwestern markets is also a large and remunerative\\nindustry, which has been recently inaugurated on\\nthe hammocks bordering the Manatee Bay, on the\\nIndian River, and on the numerous keys or\\nislands along the Gulf coast, between Sarasota and\\nCai)e Sable. The cassava has also proved to be a\\nremunerative crop in South Florida when prop-\\nerly cultivated. The introduction of jute and\\nSisal hemp, in the near future, will also add ma-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Florida, Fast and F resent. 23\\nterially to the wealth of the southern counties of\\nthe State. The flat prairie and swamp lands, now\\nconsidered ahiiost worthless for agricultural pur-\\nposes, will then blossom as the rose.\\nDwelling in an almost perpetual summer, one\\nwould naturally suppose that the climate would\\nprove enervating to the human system. Such is\\nnot the fact. In midsummer the weather is of a\\nvery pleasant temperature, the nights being uni-\\nformly cool, and sultry days, so common in the\\nNorth, of very rare occurrence. So agreeable are\\nthe summers, there is little choice between them\\nand the winters, and many of the oldest settlers\\nprefer the former. Florida, in common with other\\nStates of the Union, is sometimes afflicted with\\ndrouths, and there is sometimes a superabundance\\nof rain but, as a general rule, the seasons are regu-\\nlar and well adapted to all the valuable staples of\\nthe country. Frequent showers occur during the\\nspring and early summer, and about the first of\\nJuly the rainy season fairly sets in and continues\\nuntil the first of October. Although rain falls on\\nnearly every day during this season, it seldom\\never rains all day. These rains foil in heavy\\nshowers, generally accompanied by thunder and\\nlii^htning, but are seldom of more than two hours\\nduration. They generally occur early in the after-\\nnoon, leaving for the balance of the day a cloud-\\nless sky and a delightfully cool atmosphere. Para-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 Florida, Fast and F resent.\\ndoxical as it may seem, our winters are warmer\\nand our summers cooler than those of the North-\\nern and Western States. The mercury in the\\nthermometer rarely reaches 96\u00c2\u00b0 Fahrenheit in mid-\\nsummer, and at Braidentown, Manatee County,\\nonly on two occasions during the past four years\\nhas it fallen as low as 2,^\u00c2\u00b0.\\nThegeneralhealthfulnessofFloridaisproverbial.\\nThat its climate is more salubrious than that of\\nany other State of the Union is clearly established\\nby the medical statistics of the army, as well as by\\nthe last census returns. The report of the Surgeon\\nGeneral of the United States Army, demonstrates\\nthe fact that diseases which result from malaria\\nare of a much milder type in Florida than in any\\nother part of the United States. Among the-\\ntroops serving in Florida, the number of deaths to\\nthe number of cases of remittent fever has been\\nmuch less than in any other portion of the Union.\\nIn the Middle Division of the United States, the\\nproportion is one death to thirty-six cases of re-\\nmittent fever; in the Northern Division, one to\\nfifty-two in the Southern Division, one to fifty-\\nfour in Texas, one in seventy-eight in Califor-\\nnia, one in one hundred and twenty-two in New\\nMexico, one in one hundred and forty-eight;\\nwhile in Florida, it is but one in two hundred and\\neighty-seven. As a health resort for invalids suffer-\\ning from pulmonary complaints, Florida stands.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Florida, Past and Present, 25\\npre-eminent. Her invigorating, balsamic breezes,\\nwith healing on their wings, soon banish the hectic\\nflush from the cheek of the invalid, and health and\\nstrength return once more to cheer and gladden\\nthe hearts of despairing friends.\\nA description of Florida lands published by Dr.\\nByrne in i860 applies with equal truthfulness at\\nthe present time. In every State and Territory\\nin the Union there is a large proportion of barren\\nand poor lands, but the ratio of these lands differ\\ngreatly in the different States. Florida has a due\\nproportion of poor lands, but compared with\\nother States, the ratio of her barren and worthless\\nlands is very small. With the exception of the\\nEverglades and her irreclaimable swamp lands,\\nthere is scarcely an acre in the whole State of\\nFlorida that is entirely worthless, or which cannot\\nbe made, under her tropical climate, tributary to\\nsome agricultural production. Lands which in a\\nmore northern climate would be utterly worthless,\\nwill in Florida, owing to her tropical character,\\nyield valuable productions. For example, the\\npoorest pine lands of Florida will produce with-\\nout fertilizing a luxuriant crop of Sisal hemp,\\nwhich yields more profit to the acre than the rich-\\nest land when cultivated in sugar, cotton, and to-\\nbacco. So it is with jute and numerous other valu-\\nable tropical products that are adapted to the\\nlands that in more northern climates would yield", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 ^^orida, Fast a7id Fresent.\\nnothing to agriculture. Besides this, there are in\\nFlorida no mountain wastes, and most of the land\\nnot under cultivation is covered with valuable\\ntimber.\\nThe classification of lands in common use being\\nbased on their elevation and the character of their\\nvegetable growth, does not indicate very fully the\\ncharacter of the soil. There are the hammock,\\npme, and swamp lands. Then there is the high or\\nlight hammock, and the low or heavy hammock.\\nOf pine lands, there are the first, second, and\\nthird rate. The characteristic of hammock land\\nas distinguished from pine is in the fact of its\\nbeing covered with a growth of underbrush and\\nvines, while the pine lands are open. Whenever,\\nthen, the land is not so low as to be called swamp^\\nand produces an undergrowth of shrubbery, it is\\ncalled hammock.\\nThe school lands of Florida\u00e2\u0080\u0094 five hundred and\\nseventy thousand acres\u00e2\u0080\u0094 are subject to entry at\\nfrom one dollar and twenty-five cents to seven\\ndollars per acre, according to quality and loca-\\ntion. The swamp lands\u00e2\u0080\u0094 eight and a half million\\nacres\u00e2\u0080\u0094 belonging to the State on the ist of May,\\n1SS2, are graded in price according to the num-\\nber of acres, varying from one dollar per acre\\nfor a tract of forty acres down to seventy-five\\nto seventy cents per acre for tracts of six hun-\\ndred and forty acres and over. The Disston", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "SCENE IN A SOUTH FLORIDA HAMMOCK -Pa. 7e2\u00c2\u00ab.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Florida, Past and F resent. 29.\\nSyndicate paid twenty-five cents per acre for four\\nmillion acres of swamp land, in bodies of ten\\nthousand acres each. The commutation price of\\nUnited States lands is one dollar and twenty-five\\ncents per acre. Unimproved lands in the hands\\nof private parties are selling at from five to fifteen\\ndollars per acre improved land at from twenty\\nto fifty dollars per acre, the value depending\\non location, latitude, improvements, etc. There\\nare also large tracts of land in Florida known as\\nSpanish grants, which are chiefly owned by\\nnon-residents, and which can be purchased at rea-\\nsonable prices.\\nGovernor Bloxham recently stated that the pres-\\nent financial condition of Florida is a fit subject\\nfor congratulation. There is at all times money\\nin the Treasury to pay accrued liabilities, while the\\namount of the bonded debt is only one and a\\nquarter millions, and the assessed value of the\\nproperty of the State is thirty-seven millions.\\nThe condition of our public schools is decidedly\\nprogressive. There are at this time over twelve\\nhundred schools in the State, and last year a fund\\nof ^i39 ooo was raised to support them.\\nPlaces of worship may be found in all our set-\\ntlements; not gorgeous edifices, with [steeples\\nand spires pointing heavenward, but unpreten-\\ntious and comfortable structures, in which all de-\\nnominations of Christians assemble to worship", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "JO Florida, Past and Present.\\nGod according to the dictates of their own con-\\nsciences. The Methodists are the most numer-\\nous. Next in point of numbers, the Baptists of\\n.different grades of shell, from hard to soft, may\\nbe enumerated. Then come the Presbyterians,\\nEpiscopalians, Campbellites, and Catholics, with,\\na slight sprinkling of other denominations by way\\nof variety. The religious status of the population\\nof Florida, like the climate, is rather above the\\naverage of other sections of the Union. There is\\n,an indescribable element in the climate of Florida\\nwhich is conducive of religious fervor. Several\\nimmigrants from the North and West, whose piety\\nnever cropped out until their arrival in Florida,\\nhave been suddenly seized with a call to preach.\\nIn some parts of South Florida, local preachers are\\nnearly as numerous as laymen, and it is often\\nhighly amusing to hear them expound the Scrip-\\n.tures, and see them wrestle with theology.\\nThe Fountain of Youth, sought for in vain by\\nPonce de Leon three hundred and seventy years\\nago, is in Florida. Time has not dried up the\\nsource of its health-giving, its life-giving, waters.\\nThey flow as of yore, and every one who thirsteth\\ncan partake of them freely. Invalids and pleasure-\\nseekers find it in our glorious climate, in our in-\\nvigorating breezes, which blow as soft and balmy\\nas those from Ceylon s isle in our beautiful\\n.flowers and almost perpetual verdure, and in the", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Florida, Past and F resent. 31\\ntotal absence of the chilling winds and frosts of\\nthe North and West, which render life almost un-\\nendurable. De Soto and his followers sought our\\nshores in quest of El Dorado. That also is in\\nFlorida. You see it in our productive soil, in our\\nvast orange groves, in our bananas, pineapples,\\nrr.avas, and pomegranates, which no other State\\nof the Union can produce. Who then shall say\\nthat both the Fountain of Youth and El\\nDorado^^ are not within the boundaries of Flor-\\nida? Our climate is a perpetual summer; the\\nhusbandman tickles the soil with the plow and\\nhoe, and it laughs with an abundant harvest the\\nstately magnolias and graceful palms lock hands\\nin our hammocks and wave their evergreen foliage\\nas a token of welcome to immigrants, and wild\\nflowers gladden the eye and perfume the air with\\ntheir fragrance.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nManatee Bay Its Tropical Scenery Egmont Key\\nSnead s Island Date, Palm and Olive Tri:es\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nClimate Insects Braidentown and its Surround-\\nings Manatee, the Oldest Town on the Bay Its\\nEarly History Braiden Castle Fair Oaks\\nOrange Groves Willemsenburg and Fogartyville.\\nThe Manatee River, or, more properly speak-\\ning, bay, is one of the most picturesque sheets of\\nwater in Florida. It is fourteen miles in length,\\nwith an average width of one and a half miles.\\nOne of its tributaries the Manatee River proper\\nextends still further eastward, some twenty\\nmiles; and another northward, half that distance.\\nIts course is nearly due west to Egmont Key,\\nwhere it mingles its waters with those of Tampa\\nBay and the Gulf of Mexico. It lies between the\\ntwenty-seventh and twenty-eighth parallels of\\nnorth latitude, and in longitude 5^\u00c2\u00b0 west from\\nWashington. A person passing up the bay on the\\nmail steamer for the first time, will be charmed\\nwith the tropical and semi-tropical scenery that\\nmeets his view on either side of the bay, from its\\nmouth to Braidentown, the present terminus of\\nsteamboat navigation. Egmont Key, with its\\n32", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sun land. 33\\nforest of cabbage palmettos nodding their ever-\\ngreen plumes in the morning sun the stately date-\\npalms and olive trees on Snead s Island, on the\\n:;orth side of the bay, and the pretty villas sur-\\nrounded by young orange and banana groves on\\nthe south side, between Palmasola city and Man-\\natee, form a landscape of rare tropical beauty,\\nunexceled in the land of flowers, and unrivaled\\nby the fairest scenes in Italia s famed land.\\nUntil quite recently, this part of Florida, the\\ngreat sanitarium of the world, has, comparatively\\nspeaking, been a sealed book to the invalids and\\npleasure-seekers of the North and West, who spend\\ntheir winters in Jacksonville, St. Augustine and\\nthe towns on the St. Johns, Halifax and Indian\\nRivers, and console themselves with the idea that\\nthey have seen all parts of Florida worth visiting.\\nThe principal drawback which the Gulf coast has\\nhad to contend with, and which partially exists at\\nthis time, is lack of speedy transportation and\\ncomfortable hotel accommodations. These are\\nbeing remedied, and, when the Manatee region\\nshall have become as thickly populated as the St.\\nJohns, our facilities for transportation, etc., will\\nequal those of the Atlantic coast.\\nThe railroad now being built by Eastern capi-\\ntalists, between Palatka on the St. Johns and\\nTampa at the head of the bay of that name on\\nthe Gulf coast, will be completed within two years.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 Notes from Si in land.\\nThen the iron horse, with bowels of fire, muscles\\nof steel and breath of steam, with a shriek and a\\nsnort, will rush over the metallic track and anni-\\nhilate time and space so rapidly, that the Atlantic\\nand Gulf coasts will be within a few hours of each\\nother. A narrow-gauge railroad from Tampa to\\nthe Manatee, and thence to Sarasota Bay, will\\nsoon follow, giving us direct and rapid communi-\\ncation with the principal cities of the North and\\nWest. The round-about route over King David s\\nTransit Railroad to Cedar Key, and thence by\\nsteamboat to the Manatee, will then be abandoned,\\nand henceforth remembered only as a necessity of\\nby-gone days. The recent completion of the\\nLouisville, Nashville and Great Southern Rail-\\nroad, with a terminus at Pensacola, will soon give\\nus direct and speedy communication with the\\ncities of Louisville, Nashville, Cincinnati, Lidian-\\napolis, Chicago and St. Louis, and open up the\\nbest and most available markets for the fruits and\\nvegetables of the Gulf coast. General Alexander,\\nVice-President of this company, recently expressed\\nhis willingness to assist in the establishment of a\\nline of steamers between Pensacola and Manatee,\\ntouching at other points along the coast.\\nOur climate is far superior to that of any other\\npart of Florida; and, I do not think I hazard\\nmuch in saying, to that of any part of the habita-\\nble globe. Having, during a somewhat eventful", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sun land. 35\\nlife of sixty-two years, visited Europe, Asia, Af-\\nrica, South and Central America, Mexico and\\nCalifornia, I say, and I say it boldly, that in\\nmy varied travels, nowhere have I found so health-\\nful and desirable a climate as Sunland, on the\\n]\\\\Ianatee Bay. We are exempt from ice and the\\nchilling blasts that sweep along the St. Johns and\\nHalifax, and also from tornadoes and hurricanes,\\nso destructive on the Atlantic coast.\\nLisects are neither numerous nor troublesome.\\nI have been worse annoyed by mosquitoes in the\\nCity of Philadelphia than in this part of Florida.\\nThe ubiquitous flea is, I admit, rather jDrevalent\\nhere, but one soon becomes reconciled to his\\nhabits, and honors his drafts whenever he presents\\nhis bill. Snakes are not as numerous here as in\\nPennsylvania. There are, however, rattlesnakes\\nand moccasins in Florida. The former I have\\nnever seen, and the latter but seldom. Those\\nthat came under my observation, appeared to be\\nworse frightened than I was, and made a hasty\\nexit. Alligators are not numerous in this section,\\nand are comparatively harmless. Like a once\\nnoted statesman, they desire to be let alone. If\\nclosely cornered, they will fight but they prefer\\nto run, if a chance is offered for escape.\\nBraidentown, the embryo town of the Manatee,\\nis situated on the south side of the bay, about\\neight miles above its entrance into Tampa Bay.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36 Notes from Simla nd.\\nLocated on a bluff some fifteen feet above tide-\\nwater, it commands a fine view of the surrounding\\ncountry and of the entire bay. Being constantly\\nfanned by the breezes from the gulf with heal-\\ning on their wings, it is in point of healthfulness\\nall that the most fastidious pleasure-seeker or in-\\nvalid could wish for. From Jack s Creek, its\\neastern boundary, to its western terminus, Ware s\\nCreek, it contains a frontage on the bay of three-\\nfourths of a mile, dotted with picturesque villas,\\nsurrounded by tropical fruits and flowers. Al-\\nthough yet in a chrysalis state, being scarcely two\\nyears old, it contains two boarding-houses, two\\nstores, a meat-shop, post-office and a warehouse,\\nwith a wharf connecting it with the shore the\\nonly one on the bay east of Palmasola city. Pas-\\nsengers for Manatee and other places on the bay\\nare conveyed on shore in sail or row-boats. Ma-\\njor W. I. Turner, the projector of Braidentown,\\na Virginian by birth, has been a resident of Florida\\nfor forty-five years. Although on the shady side\\nof life, he is still hale and hearty. May he live to\\nsee his bantling, now in her leading-strings, the\\ncounty-seat of Manatee County. Stranger events\\nhave happened. This is an age of progress the\\nworld moves, and Florida, after her Rip Van\\nWinkle sleep of three hundred years, is moving\\nwith it.\\nSportsmen visiting this place can be accommo-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 37\\ndated with sail -boats for fishing, or mule and ox\\nteams for a hunting trip to the Miakka, the sports-\\nman s paradise. Captain Charles Miller and Billy\\nStowell, alias ^Buffalo Bill, both old salts\\nand reliable men, can be engaged with their re-\\nspective crafts, the Sancho Panza and Onkeehi, at\\nreasonable rates. Ox and mule teams can be had\\nof John N. Harris and Dr. S. J. Tyler.\\nThe reader will pardon a slight digression, and\\nallow me to state, that if any person who knows\\nhow to run a hotel, will start one in Braidentown,\\nhe will most assuredly put money in his purse, and\\nat the same time satisfy a great public want. A\\nhotel containing one hundred rooms, properly\\nconducted, would be filled with guests six months\\nof the year. We have fish, oysters, clams and\\ngame in abundance, on which boarders could fare\\nsumptuously every day. Shall we have a hotel\\nOne and a half miles east of Braidentown, on\\nthe low, sandy beach of the bay, is the irregularly\\nconstructed village of Manatee. A stranger visit-\\ning Manatee will invariably ask himself why a\\ntown was ever built here? The following will\\nsolve the problem. Adjacent to the village, in a\\nsoutherly direction, are rich hammock lands,\\nwhich, in consequence of their malarial surround-\\nings, could not be domiciled by their owners.\\nThe pine land on the bay shore offering a more\\nhealthful location for building, the early settlers", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38 Notes from Sunland,\\navailed themselves of it and erected their log and\\npalmetto cabins first, and afterward more pre-\\ntentious and architectural structures. The Indian\\nwar breaking out soon after the first settlers had\\nlocated at Manatee, their cabins formed the nu-\\ncleus of a settlement as a protection against the\\nsavages. Thus Manatee became a village, and for\\nmany years was the only settlement on the Mana-\\ntee Bay. The hospitality of her citizens is pro-\\nverbial. The stranger within their gates who asks\\nfor bread is never requested to masticate a stone.\\nUnfortunately, the citizens of Manatee are not as\\nprogressive as hospitable. A plank wharf or foot-\\nway, connecting the steamboat warehouse with the\\nshore, is badly needed, and should be constructed\\nat once. There is a great deal of vitality lying\\ndormant in the old town, which, if thoroughly\\naroused and properly applied, would place an en-\\ntirely different aspect on the face of affairs. The\\nvillage contains a Methodist church, five stores,\\nthree boarding-houses, a drug store, an academy, a\\nmeat-shop and a post-office. Dr. George Casper,\\nan enterprising Manateean, wishing to extend his\\nusefulness, and being impressed with the belief\\nthat it would be a good thing to mix literature\\nwith physic, has issued the prospectus of a weekly\\nnewspaper, to be called the Manatee County News.\\nIt will be the pioneer paper of the county, and its\\neditor will have plenty of elbow-room Manatee", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 39\\nCounty being as large as the States of Connecticut\\nand Rhode Island.\\nOne mile east of Manatee, on a point of land\\nformed by the junction of Braiden Creek with the\\nbay, stands a historic structure, known as Braiden\\nCastle. It is composed of a concrete of lime and\\noyster-shells, two stories high, surmounted by a\\ncupola or observatory, constructed of wood, from\\nAvhich a charming view of the surrounding country\\ncan be had. South-east, Braiden Creek, winding\\nlike a silver thread among innumerable evergreen\\nislands, presents a view worthy of a poet s dream.\\nWestward, as far as the eye can scan, can be traced\\nthe blue waters of the bay glinting in the sun or\\ndancing in the moonbeams on their way to the\\ngulf. Northward, across the bay, the eye meets\\nhammock, pine land and prairie stretching far\\naway toward Tampa Bay. This old relic, scarred\\nby Indian bullets, stands a sad memento of better\\ndays. Who shall write its history?\\nAt Fair Oaks, about one and a half miles south\\nof the castle, on a portion of the old Braiden plan-\\ntation, is the largest and most thrifty young orange\\ngrove on the gulf coast of South Florida, It com-\\nprises nearly four thousand trees belongs to the\\nHon. Charles H. Foster, ex-State Treasurer, and is\\na living, growing, bearing monument to Yankee\\npluck, enterprise and industry. Mr. Foster is now\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0erecting at Fair Oaks the handsomest private resi-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 Notes from Siinland.\\ndence in South Florida. The most direct route\\nto Fair Oaks is by the way of Manatee, and the\\nscenery en route is unsurpassed in the land of the\\nmyrtle and ivy. Leaving Rocky Ford, you pass\\nGlen Falls, whose pellucid waters sparkle and\\ndance over rock and through chasm, on their\\ncourse to the Manatee. Graceful palms, with\\ntheir evergreen foliage stately live oaks, draped\\nwith pendant moss, swaying to and fro in the\\nbreeze; girdled oaks, gayly festooned from base\\nto apex with ivy, yellow jessamine and Virginia-\\ncreeper, gladden the eye on either side of the road,\\nand orange-blossoms perfume the air with their\\ndelightful fragrance, rendering the scene enchant-\\ning as fairy land.\\nIn the village of Manatee and adjacent ham-\\nmock may be seen the orange groves of Mrs. Gates,\\nRevs. Edmund Lee, A. A. Robinson and E. Gla-\\nzier, Messrs. Pelote, Curry, Harllee, Mitchell,\\nVanderipe, Lloyd, Clark, Warner, McNeill, Cas-\\nper, Gates, Wyatt, Adams, Broberg, Reed and\\nWilson. Mrs. Gates, Parson Lee and Major\\nAdams also have banana groves in bearing. The\\nlatter gentleman is engaged in erecting a large\\nconcrete mansion, with carriage-house and ser-\\nvants quarters of the same material. Situated in\\nan eligible position on the bank of the bay, sur-\\nrounded by tropical fruits, flowers and vines, whose\\nevergreen foliage constantly waving in the breeze^\\nrenders the location highly picturesque.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "A ^ofcs from Siniland. 4\\nSome four or five miles south of Manatee, en\\nroute to Sarasota Bay, are thrifty 0ung orange\\ngroves, belonging to the Messrs. Helm, father and\\nsons, Dryman, Marshall, Younglove, Dunham,\\nSaunders, Azlin, Howell, Thompson, Williams\\nand Whitted and on Black-jack Ridge, near\\nBraidentown, may be seen the thrifty grove of\\nJudge E. M. Graham. The groves of the Messrs.\\nHelm are pronounced by every one who have seen\\nthem to be the most promising of their age in the\\nState. They are only four years old, but will put\\nto the blush many groves twice their age. They\\nare monuments of clean and j^ersistent culture.\\nOn the west side of Ware s Creek, skirting the\\nbay, is Willemsenburg, consisting of three houses\\nand the frame of a mammoth hotel. This grim\\nskeleton, gray with age, has a history. Erected\\noriginally by Dr. Hunter, at one time a noted\\nphysician of New York, and Charles W. Skinner,\\na Boston capitalist, on Sanibel, or Sanitarium\\nIsland, near Punta Rassa, it was soon blown or\\nwashed down. A portion of the wreck, with ad-\\nditional lumber from Cedar Key, was soon after-\\nward erected at Sarasota Bay, where another part-\\nner, Dr. Dunham, of St. Louis, joined in the\\nenterprise. A misunderstanding between the trio\\nresulted in the withdrawal of the two medical men\\nbefore the structure was completed. Mr. Skinner\\nsubsequently razed the building to the ground,", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 Notes fro?n Simland.\\nrafted it through Pahiiasola Bay into the Manatee^\\nand erected it on its present site, where it has stood\\nin an unfinished condition during the past five\\nyears. The decease of Mr. Skinner soon after its\\nerection, caused its progress to stop as suddenly\\nas did **my grandfather s clock at the death of\\nits owner.\\nWestward, separated by an imaginary line, is\\nFogartyville, a community composed principally\\nof boat-builders and seafaring men, with their\\nfamilies. It contains a store, boat-builder s shedy\\nhalf a dozen dwelling-houses, a floating dry-dock\\nwith two sections in working order, and two addi-\\ntional sections nearly completed. The Messrs.\\nFogarty and Captain Bhart are the owners of the\\ndry-dock.\\nIn this cozy little settlement, close down by the\\nwaters of the bay, lives Madam Julia Atzeroth,\\nand in the garden attached to her house was cul-\\ntivated with her own hands the first coffee grown\\nin the United States. Madam Atzeroth, or Madam\\nJoe, as she is called by her friends, is a char-\\nacter, and deserves an extended notice.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nMadam Atzeroth\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Birth, Parentac-.k and Marriage\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Arrival in New York\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Visit to Philadelphia,\\nEaston and New Orleans\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Arrival in Florida-\\nLocates ON Terraceia Island\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Vicissitudes of Pio-\\nneer Life\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A Friend in Need, a Friend Indeed\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nArrival of her Sister and Family\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Trip to Nf.w-\\nnansville\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Corn-dodgers and Sawdust\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Death of\\nMrs. Nichols\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Removal to Fort Brooke, Tampa-\\nCol. W. W. Belknap and Family\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Return to Ter-\\nraceia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Homestead Papers Illegally Executed\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nReturn again to Tampa\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Gale of 1846\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Remove to\\nPalmetto\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Indian War\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Scenes during the War of\\nthe Rebellion\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sell out at Palmetto and Settle\\nin Fogartyville\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First Coffee Grown in the\\nUnited States\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Its History.\\nMadam Julia Atzeroth, whose maiden name\\nwas Hunt, was born in the City of Bradford, near\\nthe River Rhine, in Bavaria, on the 25th day of\\nDecember, 1807. Of a family of four children-\\ntwo males and two females she is the only survi-\\nvor. The death of her mother occurring when\\nshe was eleven -years of age, she was adopted by\\nan uncle on the maternal side, with whom she\\nresided until she attained her majority. At the\\nage of twenty-four years she married Joseph At-\\n43", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 Iv^o cs frofn Su/i arid.\\nzeroth, also a native of Bavaria. The young\\ncouple soon after the birth of their first child, a\\ndaughter, left the Fatherland and immigrated to\\nAmerica. They arrived in New York in the\\nmonth of August, 1841, where they remained only\\na few months. In consequence of the failing\\nhealth of Madam Atzeroth, they visited Philadel-\\nphia and Easton, Pa. but deriving no benefit from\\nchange of location at the North, her physician ad-\\nvised her to go South. They accordingly went to\\nNew Orleans, where they remained about one year.\\nMadam Atzeroth s health not improving, her at-\\ntending physician, a German, proposed a trip to\\nFlorida. Laying in a supply of provisions and\\nmedicines, and accompanied by the physician,\\nthey engaged passage on board the schooner Essex,\\na tender for the United States troops stationed at\\nFort Brooke, Tampa, where they arrived in the\\nspring of 1843.\\nSoon after landing at Tampa, Mr. Atzeroth com-\\nmenced prospecting for a desirable place to locate.\\nAfter looking about for two or three weeks, he\\nconcluded to homestead one hundred and sixty\\nacres of land on Terraceia Island, and on the 12th\\nday of April, 1843, accompanied by his wife, little\\ndaughter, the German physician and his dog\\nBonaparte, landed on the east side of the island\\nabout midway of Terraceia Bay. The hammock\\nwas so dense that the men were compelled to use", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 45\\ntheir axes to clear a space on which to pitch their\\ntent. The underbrush and vines were so thick\\nand the progress made by the men so slow, that\\nMadam Joe seized an axe and assisted them. This\\nwas her first attempt at chopping and grubbing m\\nFlorida. Since that time she has become an ex-\\npert at the business. When the tent was erected\\nand dinner prepared, it was eaten with a keen\\nrelish. From that time forward Madam Joe felt\\nnew life and strength. Her torpid liver began to\\nperform its normal functions, and she forthwith\\ndischarged the physician and destroyed his medi-\\ncines. The doctor went to Key West, where he\\ndied soon afterward.\\nHaving become weary of tent-life. Madam Joe\\nproposed to her husband the erection of a palmet-\\nto hut. Mr. Joe, as the madam always called her\\nhusband, drove the stakes for the frame and gath-\\nered the palmetto fans or branches. The madam\\nmounted the roof and thatched it but her work\\nwas performed so badly that the first shower of\\nrain deluged the interior, and its inmates sought\\nrefuge under the table. The hut was subsequently\\nre-thatched, and three of its corners made fast to\\ntrees, which prevented the wind from blowing it\\ndown. Soon after the completion of the hut, their\\nprovisions ran short, and Mr. Joe started in a\\ncanoe for Tampa to replenish them. On his re-\\nturn, adverse winds blew his frail craft around", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 Notes fro77i Sunland,\\nShaw s Point into Palmasola Bay, and becoming\\nbewildered, he landed at Sarasota instead of Ter-\\nraceia. After being buffeted about by the wind\\nand waves for more than a week, he finally reached\\nhome. During his absence, Madam Joe and her\\nchild had no companion save the dog Bonaparte.\\nThe panthers, wild hogs and owls made the nights\\nhideous with their screams, growls and hootings.\\nOne night a raid was made by an owl on the\\nchickens roosting on the trees overhanging the\\nhut. Madam Joe seized an old musket of the\\nMethodist persuasion, which usually went off at\\nhalf-cock, with the intention of frightening away\\nthe wild varmints, but it was unloaded. Never\\nhaving loaded a musket, she was in a quandary\\nwhether to put in first the powder or the shot.\\nLuckily, she put in the powder before the shot,\\nand stepping to the door of the hut, discharged the\\nmusket into the tops of the trees. She put in too\\nmuch powder, and like another gun we read about,\\nit\\nBore wide the mark and kicked its owner over,\\nThe owl escaped that time in consequence of be-\\ning at the wrong end of the musket. It was sub-\\nsequently killed by Mr^ Joe, and peace reigned\\nonce more among the chickens. Madam Joe sub-\\nsequently became an expert with both the shot-gun\\nand rifle, and if reports are reliable, her unerring\\naim has caused more than one red-skin to make a", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland, 47\\nhasty exit to the happy hunting-grounds. She\\ncan also ride a horse astride or otherwise\u00e2\u0080\u0094 seldom\\notherwise like a Camanche.\\nBecoming disgusted with their frail palmetto\\nhut, Madam and Mr. Joe felled the trees and com-\\nmenced the erection of a log-pen house, consisting\\nof two rooms, with a wide passage running between\\nthem. As there were no saw-mills in the country,\\nboards could not be had at any price. The roof\\nof the house Avas covered with split cedar planks,\\nand the interstices between the logs filled with\\nmoss and clay. A chimney was improvised of\\nsticks plastered with mud. Subsequently, glazed\\nsash for the windows were imported from New\\nOrleans. Meanwhile the axe had not been idle.\\nThe stately live oaks and graceful palms around\\nthe house had been felled and burned, the land\\ngrubbed, and a good-sized vegetable garden was\\nin successful cultivation. Fort Brooke, some thirty\\nmiles distant, offering a good market for their\\nsurplus produce, they hired a man with a boat to\\ntransport and sell their vegetables. Although\\nbountiful crops rewarded their labor, they were\\nnot entirely happy. Madam Joe was anxious that\\nher only sister, residing in New York, should\\nemigrate with her family to Florida. But how\\nwas the matter to be accomplished without money?\\nWhere there is a will, there is always a way to\\naccomplish things which at first sight seem to be", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 Notes from Sunland.\\nimpossibilities. The matter was laid before Col.\\nW. G. Belknap, the commander of Fort Brooke,\\nwho cheerfully advanced the required funds, and\\nMr. Joe left immediately in a schooner for New\\nYork, *ijia Key West. The voyage was long and\\ntedious, but it was accomplished, and in due\\ncourse of time, Mr. Joe returned safely with his\\nbrother-in-law, wife and child.\\nAnother trouble now presented itself. The\\nArmed Occupation Act having expired previous to\\nlocating their land on Terraceia, they were com-\\npelled to go to the United States Land Office, at\\nNewnansville, one hundred and sixty miles distant,\\nto file the requisite papers. The country being\\nwild and sparsely settled, Mr. Joe and Mr. Nichols,\\nhis brother-in-law, were compelled to pack their\\nprovisions on their backs, which rendered their\\njourney wearisome and slow. On the third day\\nthey reached a cabin, where they remained over\\nnight. While at breakfast on the following morn-\\ning, most of their provisions were stolen by some\\nthieving negroes. The theft not being discovered\\nuntil they stopped at mid-day to lunch, they were\\nin a sad plight. They pushed on as fast as possi-\\nble, and late in the evening came to a cabin in-\\nhabited by very poor people. A scanty supper\\nwas set before them, which tliey ate and retired for\\nthe night. The breakfast-table on the following\\nmorning was bountifully supplied with hog, hominy", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Noies frojii Sunland. 4\\nand corn-dodgers. Mr. Nichols having never be-\\nfore seen a corn-dodger, took a large mouthful of\\none, and then walking deliberately to the door,\\nspat it out. On resuming his seat at the table,\\nhe requested Mr. Joe, in German, not to eat those\\nsaw-dust cakes. Mr. Joe, knowing the difference\\nbetween saw-dust and corn-meal, continued to put\\naway the dodgers, to the great disgust of his bro-\\nther-in-law, who finished his breakfast on hog and\\nhominy. They finally reached Newnansville,\\ntransacted their business and returned safely home,\\nafter an absence of about two weeks.\\nSoon after the return of her husband from New-\\nnansville, Mrs. Nichols gave birth to a child. It\\nlived only two hours, and in less than one week\\nfrom its birth its mother followed the little an2rel\\no\\nto\\nThe undiscovered country, from whose bourne\\nNo traveler returns.\\nThe surviving chdd, a little girl two years old, was\\nadopted by Madam Joe, who reared and educated\\nher. She is at this time the wife of Mr. William\\nO Neil, who resides at Palmetto, on the north side\\nof the Manatee Bay.\\nThe money borrowed from Colonel Belknap still\\nremained unpaid, which was a source of great trou-\\nble to Madam Joe. She had the inclination, but\\nnot the means to cancel the debt. The colonel\\nproposed to send for his family at the North, and", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 Notes from Sunlaiid,\\ninstall Madam Joe as housekeeper. The proposi-\\ntion was cheerfully acquiesced hi and early in the\\nyear 1845, -^ladam Joe, accompanied by her hus-\\nband, daughter and niece, went to Tampa and re-\\nsided in the house of Colonel Belknap, at Fort\\nBrooke. The Terraceia homestead was left in\\ncharge of Mr. Nichols and a hired man. The\\ncolonel s family at that time consisted of his wife,\\ntwo daughters and a son. That son, General W.\\nW. Belknap, at present a resident of Keokuk,\\nIowa, made an honorable and enviable record\\nduring the war of the Rebellion, and was afterward\\nSecretary of War during a part of President Grant s\\nadministration.\\nDuring the eight months Madam Joe resided\\nwith the family of Colonel Belknap, she frequently\\nsaw the wily chief, Billy Bowlegs, and other noted\\nSeminoles, for whom, to use her own words, she^\\ncooked many a meal. Close confinement\\ncaused a recurrence of her old disease liver com-\\nplaint and she reluctantly left the hospitable\\nhouse of Colonel Belknap for her homestead on\\nTerraceia, where by constant out-door exercise,,\\nshe soon regained her usual health. Even at the\\npresent day. Madam Joe s universal panacea is\\nthe grubbing-hoe and elbow-grease. She prac-\\ntices what she preaches, and unlike the medical\\nprofession, takes her own medicine. Soon after\\nthe return of Madam Joe and family to Terraceia,", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 5 1\\nMr. Nichols concluded to go to New Orleans.\\nDuring that year 1846 the yellow fever nearly\\ndepopulated the city, and Mr. Nichols was proba-\\nbly one of its victims, as he has never been heard\\nfrom by his friends since he left Terraceia.\\nIn the fall of 1846, one of the severest gales that\\never visited this section of the country passed over\\nTampa, Terraceia, Palmetto and Manatee. Ma-\\ndam Joe s house was blown down and all her fur-\\nniture destroyed. The hen-house was the only\\nstructure that survived the storm. The fowls were\\ndispossessed of their domicile, and the family oc-\\ncupied it until another house was built.\\nIn 1848, a government official visited this part\\nof Florida to examine proofs of claimants to land\\nunder the Armed Occupation and Homestead\\nActs. On examining Madam Joe s papers, it was\\ndiscovered that two permits had been issued for\\nthe same number. This error could only be rec-\\ntified at the General Land Office in Washington.\\nIt was deemed advisable by Madam Joe and her\\nhusband to return to Tampa and remain there until\\nthe mistake in relation to their homestead could be\\nrectified. Mr. Joe hired a man to assist him in\\nbuilding a house at Tampa, and they went up the\\nHillsborough River to cut logs and make shingles\\nfor the structure. In the month of September the\\nlogs for the house were formed into a raft and the\\nshingles placed on it. Everything being in readi-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "C2 Notes f rem Sunland.\\nness for a start, a furious gale set in, which de-\\nstroyed the raft and scattered the logs and shingles\\nfor miles along the banks of the river. Having\\ngathered the logs and shingles together and\\nrafted them down to Tampa, Mr. Joe visited his\\nfamily at Terraceia, where he learned that during\\nthe late storm his wife, child and niece had taken\\nrefuge in the house of a friend on another part of\\nthe island. He returned to Tam.pa, and his family\\nfollowed soon after. When Madam Joe arrived,\\nshe did not admire the location her husband had\\nselected for the house. The frame was taken down\\nand erected on a lot on the town-side of the river,\\nand was soon occupied by the family. The prop-\\nerty is still owned by Madam Joe.\\nMisfortunes, it is said, never come single-handed.\\nIn the early part of 1849, J^*^ injured one of\\nhis feet, and soon after was attacked with chills\\nand fever, which, despite medical treatment, con-\\ntinued nine months. At this time Madam Joe s\\nfinances were at a fearfully low ebb; but being\\nequal to the emergency, she cast about for some-\\nthing to do whereby she could earn an honest\\npenny. She accordingly started a home-made\\nbeer and cake shop, which being liberally patron-\\nized by the soldiers, soon placed her in easy finan-\\ncial circumstances. Her husband at the same\\ntime kept a sutler s store at Fort Chiconicla.\\nAbout this time a partly-finished house, built by", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "yoics from Sunland. 5 3-.\\na friend Mr. Reecc in PrJmetto, was sold by the-\\nsheriff, and Madam Joe became the purchaser,\\nwith the hope that Mr. Reece would be able to\\nredeem the i^roperty. Failing to do so, Madam\\nJoe and family left Tampa and located in Palmetto\\nin the year 1 85 1 Here they opened a small\\nstore, in which they did a thriving business. They\\nalso cultivated their farm on Terraceia Island, and\\nby degrees, as their means permitted, stocked it\\nwith cattle, horses and hogs. Additions were also\\nmade to their stock of goods, and finally they\\npurchased a colored man, who was an excellent\\nfarm hand, and proved of great service to his\\nowners.\\nIn 1855 another Indian war broke out. Volun-\\nteer companies, home-guards and boat companies\\nwere organized for protection against Indian in-\\ncursions. Many plantations were abandoned and\\nhomes broken up. Mr. Joe belonged to one of\\nthe boat companies, and a ten days scout being\\nprolonged to twenty days, it was reported that the\\nentire party had been massacred by the Indians.\\nDuring the scout they visited the Indian camps in\\nthe Everglades, from whence Mr. Joe brought\\naway as trophies a silver cup and a spoon belong-\\ning to Billy Bowlegs. The cup was subsequently\\nsold to Colonel Jewett, U. S. A. The country\\nwas in a state of commotion and fever of excite-\\nment until the close of the war, in 1858. During", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "7^4 Notes from Sun land.\\nthese eventful years, Madam Joe stood guard with\\nher musket or rifle whenever her services were re-\\nquired. She never showed the white feather.\\nPeace had scarcely been restored, when the\\ncivil war of 1861 broke out, and Florida was again\\nin a state of anarchy. Mr. Joe enlisted in the\\nConfederate service, and served in Tennessee and\\nKentucky. At the close of the war, Madam Joe\\nsold her place at Palmetto, with the intention of\\nreturning to Europe, but her physician informed\\nher that she could not survive a change of climate,\\nwhich induced her to abandon the idea of visiting\\nthe Fatherland. The family again took up their\\nresidence on Terraceia, where Mr. Joe died on the\\n29th of October, 1871. Madam Joe sold part of\\nher Terraceia plantation and moved to Fogarty-\\nville, her present location, in the year 1873.\\ngarden at this place comprises only four acres, but\\nnowhere else in Florida can be found so many\\ndifferent varieties of trees, plants, vegetables,\\nvines, shrubs and flowers. Mrs. William Fogarty,\\nthe daughter of Madam Joe, with her husband and\\nson, reside with the madam. Here, in the year\\n1 8 76, was planted a few grains of Mexican coffee,\\nreceived from a neighbor, Mrs. E. S. Warner.\\nOn the 20th of February, 1880, Madam Joe sent\\nto the Commissioner of Agriculture, at Washing-\\nton, the Jirsf pound of coffee grown in the United\\nStates, for which she received ten dollars. This", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 5 5\\nspring she has sent to the Agricultural Department,\\nat Washington, four pounds of coffee, the product\\nof two trees. Next year she will have eight coffee\\ntrees in bearing, and at least one hundred young\\ntrees in her nursery. As quite a diversity of\\nopinion exists in relation to the origin of the seed\\nfrom which the first coffee was grown in the United\\nStates, I append the following communications\\nfrom Mrs. E. S. Warner, of Manatee, Fla., and\\nDr. A. A. Russell, of Cordova, Mexico, published\\nin the Tampa Tribune, of September 26th, 1880:\\nManatee, Fla., August 30th, j88o.\\nDr. Wall Dear Sir I inclose a letter from Dr. A.\\nA. Russell, of Cordova, Mexico, the gentleman from whose\\nplantation the coffee-seed was procured that has been suc-\\ncessfully reproduced by Madam Atzeroth here. As the sub-\\nject of coffee -raising in this State is causing considerable\\ninquiry, and as this letter contains much valuable informa-\\ntion on the subject, I submit it to you for publication, asking\\nthe favor of having a copy forwarded to the doctor from\\nyour office as soon as issued. Very respectfully,\\nE. S. Warner.\\nCoRDOV.\\\\, Mexico, May igth, 1880.\\nMrs. E. S. Warner Madam It was quite a plea-\\nsure to receive your very kind letter of April 1st. I con-\\ngratulate you most heartily, and am proud to learn that from\\nthe seed I sent was produced the first coffee in the States. I\\nthink I wrote you that the plant requires shade. In this\\nclimate we prefer to plant in fresh, timbered land cutting\\nout at first only the undergrowth, and taking out a few trees", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "5 6 Notes from Sun land,\\nevery year after for two or three years, thus graduating the\\nshade and ventilating as appears to be required. The pala-\\ntine (or plantain, or banana, as you probably call it) makes\\na good shade, and may be cut out, or under leaves trimmed off\\nas may seem to be necessary. Coffee requires a rich,\\nvegetable soil, or manure. The berry is fully ripe when\\ndark red, but the grain is matured if the berry is picked\\nwhen it has become yellow or only turning red; however,\\nthe coffee is of better quality if the berry is fully ripe, that is,\\nof a deep or dark red. When gathered, it should be spread\\nout at once to dry^ in the sun. It may be dried on mats,\\nscaffolds or platforms of planks or boards. In good or\\nfavorable weather it requires about three weeks to dry.\\nHere it is often dried on the ground. It may be spread\\nfrom two to four inches thick, and should be stirred twice or\\nthree times a day; and if it should get wet a few times on\\nthe diycr, before half dry, no harm will be done and the\\ncoffee not injured in the least, if frequently stirred to prevent\\nfermentation. When half dry it should be protected from\\nrain and dew. If it has been wet a few times it will be\\nmore easily cleaned, but if frequently wet it will be of a\\ndarker color; also much darker, and even black and spoiled,\\nif allowed to heat and ferment. It may be pulped by some\\nof the pulping machines now in use, the day it is gathered,\\nthen washed and dried. The pulped coffee will dry in a {qw\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2days, occupies less space in drying, and is of a lighter color,\\nwhich, with you, I presume, are considerations of little im-\\nportance at present.\\nYou will know the coffee is sufficiently dry when the\\nhull crushes readily under the foot. The most simple, and,\\nby the way, not a very^bad process for cleaning the coffee,\\nis the primitive mode of cleaning rice that is, to beat it out\\nin a deep mortar with a heavy pestle, and as the chaff accu-\\nmulates dip out the coffee with a cup in the left hand, pour-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "MADAM JULIA ATZEROTH,\\nThe lady who raised the first coffee grown in the United States.\\nFrom a photograph hy F. Pinmu), Manatee and Tampa.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "JVofcs from Sunland. 59-\\ning back into the mortar from the same height, at the same\\ntime blowing off the chaff with a fan in the right hand, re-\\npeating the process until clean.\\nThere are a variety of machines for hulling and clean-\\ning coffee, which will be a matter of consideration when the\\nproduction requires it. Now that you have succeeded in\\nproducing the grain, you will have less difficulty in propa-\\ngating from the acclimated seed, which should be thoroughly\\nripe, squeezed out of the pulp and dried in the shade. Hope\\nyoii will continue successfully, and establish plantations of\\nimportance. Your obedient servant,\\nA. A. Russell.\\nThe portrait of Madam Joe is a truthful like-\\nness. Above the medium height of her sex, with\\nfeatures bronzed by a tropical sun and the ex-\\nposure and hardships of a pioneer life, she is never-\\ntheless a well-preserved matron of seventy-four\\nyears, with as noble and generous a heart as ever\\npulsated within the breast of a human being. She\\nis passionately fond of music and waltzing, and\\ncan\\nTrip the light fastastic toe\\nas gracefully as a miss of sixteen. May her days\\nin the land be prolonged beyond fourscore years\\nand ten.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nThe Warners, Mother and Sons Palmasola City\\nSteam Saw-mill and other Improvements Sam\\nNichols and his Shell-mound Palmasola Bay\\nSarasota Bay and its Surroundings Snead s Island\\nShell-mound Date-palm and Olive Trees\\nUncle Joe and his Dogs with Glass Eyes Sapp s\\nPoint Palmetto The Patten and Turner Plan-\\ntations JuDAH P. Benjamin Oak Hill Terra-\\nCEiA Island Landing of De Soto in 1539.\\nWestward of Fogartyville, on the south side\\nof the bay, among the most prominent residences,\\nare those of the Warners, mother and sons.\\nThence westward, across a bayou, on a sand-spit\\nprojecting into the bay, stands the steam saw and\\nplaning-mill of Messrs. W. S. Warner Co.,\\njust completed. This mill, wharf and warehouse\\nare the nuclei of Palmasola City, which is soon to\\nskirt the adjacent sand hills, and cause the sur-\\nrounding wilderness to blossom as the rose.\\nMr. Warner is a Bay State Yankee of indomitable\\npluck, and his partner, Mr. J. S. Beach, who re-\\nsides at Terre Haute, Ind., controls the money\\nbags of a national bank. If capital and pluck\\ncan build a city, the success of Palmasola may be\\n60", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 6i\\nset down as assured. Along the bay, west of the\\nWarners, are the ranches of Messrs. Sweetzer,\\nBurgess, Sykes and Bishop. A few miles further\\nwest is Shaw s Point, at the mouth of the bay.\\nHere, on an immense shell-mound, surrounded by\\nhammock and pine land, Mr. Sam Nichols, a native\\nof Alabama, has entered a homestead of i6o acres\\nof land. Although severely wounded during our\\nlate unpleasantness, Mr. Nichols has beaten\\nhis musket into a plowshare, his sword into a\\npruning-hook, and, like a good citizen, is earning\\nhis bread by the sweat of his brow.\\nAlong the Gulf coast, southward, skirting Pal-\\nmasola and Sarasota Bays, may be found the hos-\\npitable homes of Messrs. Farrar, Adams, Moore,\\nBuckner, Harp, Stephonse, Tyler, Spang, Crow-\\nley, Dorch, Callan, Riggin, Dunham, Smith,\\nHelveston, Whitaker, Willard, Bidwell, Ed-\\nmondson, C. E. and M. R. Abbe, Liddell, Greer,\\nYonge, Boardman, Young, Lancaster, Cunliff,\\nWood worth, Jones, Anderson, Crocker, Hansen,\\nBronson Bros., Clower, Lowe, Webb, Griffith,\\nBacon, Knight, Guptrel and Roberts.\\nOn the north side of Manatee Bay, at its en-\\ntrance into Tampa Bay, is Snead s Island, sepa-\\nrated from the mainland by a narrow and shallow\\ncut-off leading into Terraceia Bay, and also\\nby a wider and deeper channel opening into\\nTampa Bay, and separating it from Terraceia Is-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "62 Notes from Sunland.\\nland. Midway of the island, fronting on Mana\u00c2\u00ab\\ntee Bay, is a curiosity in the shape of a shell-\\nmound or earth- work, crescent-shaped, and some\\nforty feet in height. The distance between the\\npoints of the crescent on the bank of the bay, is.\\nfive hundred feet. On the highest point of the\\nmound, and nearly in the centre, stands a frame\\ndwelling, somewhat dilapidated, erected by a\\nformer owner of the place. On the eastern angle\\nare two date-palm and two olive trees. The\\nformer are fifteen inches in diameter and forty\\nfeet in height. The latter are eighteen inches in\\ndiameter two feet above the ground, and fifty feet\\nin height. Both the olive and date-palms bear\\nfruit j the former in large quantities. On the\\nmound in the centre of the crescent, and near the\\nhouse, are two olibanum trees, eighteen inches in\\ndiameter and fifty feet in height. Was this mound\\nan Indian burial place, or was it thrown up by\\nthe early Spanish invaders as a defense against the\\nNatchez, a warlike and semi-civilized tribe of In-\\ndians, who, at the time of the Spanish conquest,\\ninhabited this part of Florida Quicn sabe\\nThe only human occupants of the island at this\\ntime are uncle Joe Franklin and his wife, an aged\\ncouple. Uncle Joe lives in a palmetto hut with a\\nshell floor, and with the old oman and two glass-\\neyed dogs as companions,\\nHis hours in cheerful labor fly.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 63\\nUncle Joe is a character, and all visitors to the\\nManatee should call on him, examine his mam-\\nmoth wild fig tree and hedge of century plants.\\nMetfi, Ask him to chain his dogs before you go\\n.ashore, otherwise the seat of your inexpressibles\\nwill require repairs. I have been there.\\nEastward, above the Terraceia cut-off, is Sapp s\\nPoint. Further along, and directly opposite\\nBraidentown, is Palmetto, a young town contain-\\ning two stores and a post-office. The reader will\\nperceive that Uncle Sam distributes post-offices\\nin Florida with a lavish hand. We have three of\\nthese convenient institutions within a radius of\\none and a half miles Braidentown, Manatee,\\nPalmetto and Palmasola City, only three miles\\ndistant, will have one as soon as Postmaster War-\\nner shall build an office to protect the mail matter\\nof that growing city.\\nImmediately in the rear of Palmetto is a prairie\\nof several miles in extent. North-east of the\\ntown, about one mile distant in the hammock,\\nMr. Hendricks, of Palmetto, has a promising six-\\nycars-old orange grove, grown from seeds planted\\nwith his own hands. Mr. Hendricks cultivates\\nvegetables between the ro^vs of his orange trees,\\nand last year he realized several hundred dollars\\nby shipping his early tomatoes, cucumbers and\\nsnap-beans to New York and other Northern\\nmarkets. To Mr. Hendricks belongs the credit", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64 Notes from Sunla7id,\\nof starting the early vegetable boom in the Mana-\\ntee region.\\n]\\\\Ir. David Zehner, from Louisiana, has recently\\npurchased a strip of scrub hammock, east of the\\ntown, where he intends to make the cultivation\\nof grapes and strawberries a specialty. He has\\nalready received several thousand cuttings and\\nplants of the choicest varieties. A few miles\\nfurther eastward, you reach the plantation of\\nMajor W. I. Turner, the god-father of Braiden-\\ntown, who has forty acres in tomatoes, cucumbers,\\nsquashes and beans. He has already commenced\\nshipping his vegetables to the Northern markets.\\nHalf a mile east of Major Turner s is the ex-\\ntensive plantation of Major George Patten. Gen-\\neral Hiram W. Leffingwell, ex-United States Mar-\\nshal for the Eastern District of Missouri, has\\nrecently purchased 200 acres of this land, and is\\nnegotiating for more. Two of the general s\\nsons, with their families and an unmarried nephew,\\nare now encamped on the land, and are busily\\nengaged in erecting dwelling-houses and the ne-\\ncessary out-buildings. The general and his wife\\nwill arrive later in the season. In addition to the\\ncultivation of the various fruits of the citrus\\nfamily, the general will devote his attention to\\ngeneral farm crops and the growing of early vege-\\ntables for the Northern and Western markets.\\nAnother St. Louis gentleman, Mr. C. G. B..", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 65\\nDrummond, Assistant U. S. District Attorney,\\nhas purchased 120 acres of land on the Rogers ham-\\nmock near Oak Hill, on which he will set out an\\norange grove this summer.\\nMr. H. O. Cannon, a California Argonaut, and\\nlate resident of New Albany, Ind., after having\\nspent several winters prospecting Florida, has,\\nlike a sensible man, concluded to pitch his tent\\non the Patten j^lantation. With this view, he has\\npurchased twenty acres of land, which he has\\ncommenced grubbing and fencing, preparatory to\\nplanting an orange and lemon grove. Mr. C. H.\\nWalworth, of Milwaukee, has purchased twenty\\nacres of land adjoining Mr. Cannon, which he\\nv/ill have cleared, grubbed and planted in orange\\nand lemon trees this year.\\nIn ante belluni times, the present Patten planta-\\ntion was know first as the Gamble, and afterward\\nas the Cofield and Davis plantation, and was the\\nlargest and most thoroughly equipped sugar plan-\\ntation in the State of Florida. The owners worked\\n200 hands, and had 1,400 acres of sugar-cane in\\none field. Their sugar-mill and refinery contained\\nall the modern appliances, and, at the commence-\\nment of the war, was worth half a million dol-\\nlars. Soon after the breaking out of hostilities,\\nmost of the slaves were sent to Louisiana, and work\\non the plantation was abandoned. During the last\\nyear of the war, a Federal gunboat entered the.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "^(i Notes from Sunland.\\nManatee Bay, and a boat s crew, commanded by\\na,n officer, blew up the sugar-house and set fire to the\\nrefinery. The destruction was complete and to-\\nday may be seen the ponderous fly-wheel of the en-\\ngine, broken shafts and crumbling walls\u00e2\u0080\u0094 sad me-\\nmentos of the event. The family mansion, a large\\ntwo-story brick structure, with galleries around\\nthree sides of both stories, escaped the hand of the\\ndestroyer. Although bearing the finger-marks of\\ntime, it is at this day, a substantial structure, and,\\nwith slight repairs, would weather the storms of\\nanother century. Connected with this old man-\\nsion is a history, now for the first time published.\\nWithin these walls during the last days of the\\nSouthern Confederacy, when that fabric (on paper)\\nwas fast crumbling to pieces, Judah P. Benjamin,\\na fugitive from justice, and flying for his life under\\nthe assumed name of Charles Howard, was the\\nguest for nearly two months of Captain Archibald\\nMcNeill, its then occupant. When on that mem-\\norable Sunday, in the spring of 1865, Jeff. Davis\\nand his cabinet hastily fled from Richmond, Ben-\\njamin and Breckinridge struck out for the wilds of\\nFlorida, which seemed to ofl er a secure retreat.\\nArrived at Gainsville, Breckinridge sought refuge\\non the Atlantic coast, and Benjamin, under the\\nguidance of Captain L. G. Leslie, started for the\\nGulf coast, via Tampa, and arrived safely at the\\nmansion of Captain McNeill. After remaining", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 67-\\nnearly two months at Captain McNeill s, Benja-\\nmin was conveyed in a boat to Manatee, and from\\nthence to Sarasoto Bay in a horse-cart, by Rev. E.\\nGlazier, of Manatee; from thence to Cape Florida,\\nin a small sail-boat, commanded by Captain Fred.\\nTresca, also a resident of Manatee. At Cape\\nFlorida a larger boat was procured, and after\\nseveral hair-breadth escapes from Federal gun-\\nboats and the perils of the sea. Captain Tresca\\nlanded his charge safely on one of the islands of the\\nBahama group, and returned to Manatee ^1,500\\nricher than when he left home. Benjamin reached\\nEngland safely, where he has acquired fame and\\nfortune. Should this page by chance meet his\\neye, he will no doubt be pleased to learn that\\nCaptain McNeill, past threescore and ten, has re-\\ntired from active life and settled in Manatee, sur-\\nrounded by a large family. Captain Tresca, or\\nCaptain Fred., as he is called by his friends,\\nlives with his wife and two children on a small\\nplantation near Braidentown. Although he counts\\nhis years away up among the nineties, he is still a\\nwell-preserved old salt. Rev. E. Glazier is\\nstill a resident of Manatee, and looks as though\\nhe had renewed his lease of life for another half\\ncentury. Judas betrayed his Master for the paltry\\nsum of thirty pieces of silver. Twenty-five thou-\\nsand dollars was the price offered by the United\\nStates Government for the corpus of the fugitive.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "6S Notes from Sunland.\\nThe example of Judas was not followed by those\\nwho assisted Benjamin to escape.\\nThere are more than a thousand acres of the rich\\nhammock land belonging to this plantation for\\nsale at from to ^25 per acre, according to\\nlocation. When the fact that it cost originally\\n$75 P^^ ^cre to clear this land, is taken into con-\\nsideration, it will be seen that the price at which\\nit is now offered is very low, and places it within\\nthe reach of persons of small means. The land\\nwill be sold in lots to suit purchasers.\\nAdjoining the grounds of the Patten mansion is\\nthe residence of Hamet J. Craig, who has a young\\norange grove of three hundred trees and ten acres\\nof hammock land under cultivation. Five miles\\nfurther on, in a north-easterly direction, is Oak\\nHill, the former residence of Major W. I. Turner.\\nAt this place the major has a bearing orange grove\\nof several hundred trees, and also one of the most\\npromising six-years-old groves of six hundred\\ntrees to be found in the Manatee region. Adjoin-\\ning Major Turner is the grove of Walter Tresca,\\njust coming into bearing, and near by is the young\\ngrove of Mr. William Gillett.\\nTerraceia Island, separated from Snead s Island\\nby a narrow channel, is bounded on the west by\\nTampa Bay, on the north by Frog Creek, and on\\nthe east by Terraceia Bay. This island contains\\nseveral tracts of excellent hammock land, most of", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 69\\nwhich is under improvement. On this island are\\nlocated the bearing orange groves of Messrs. Hal-\\nlock, Lennard and Williams; Messrs. Kennedy\\nHoward, Gifford, Watkins, Hobart, Patten and\\nWyatt are also located on this island. Judge\\nCessna, of Gainesville, has recently purchased^\\nplantation on the island, and will soon locate\\nthere. Other persons on the line of the Transit\\nRailroad having become disgusted with frost and\\nice, are seeking homes in the Manatee re-ion\\nOn the mainland, on the east side, and about mid-\\nway of Terraceia Bay, is the plantation of Mr\\nJohn Craig. Mr. Craig raises the finest cane and\\nhas the reputation of making the best sugar m\\nManatee County.\\nA short distance north of Terraceia Island, on\\nthe mainland, Hernando De Soto, fresh from the\\nconquest of Peru, where he was associated with\\nFrancisco Pizarro, landed his troops in the latter\\npart of May, 1539. He sailed from Havana on\\nSunday May i8th, 1539, with his troops embarked\\nin five large ships, two caravels and two bri-an-\\ntines The disastrous fate of his predecessors in\\nFlorida cast no gloom on the mind of De Soto\\nand his assurances of success imparted confidence\\no those who accompanied him. He had never\\nbeen defeated in battle, and was believed by his\\nsoldiers to be invincible. His officers were men\\not valor and ripe experience, and his troops were", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "^o Notes from Sunland.\\nwell disciplined, a majority of them having served\\nin many campaigns, and all were well acquainted\\nwith Indian warfare.\\nHis wife, Dona Isabella, did not share his en-\\nthusiasm, and desired to accompany him and share\\nthe dangers she believed he was about to encoun-\\nter but De Soto strenuously opposed her wishes,\\nand encouraged her to believe that the time of\\nreunion was not far distant. The conquest of\\nFlorida appeared to De Soto to be an easy task,\\nfrom which he could soon return with large acces-\\nsions of wealth and glory.\\nContrary and baffling winds kept the squadron\\ntossing about in the Gulf of Mexico for several\\ndays. De Soto and his troops obtained their first\\nview of the Land of Flowers on the morning of\\nthe 25th day of May, and in the afternoon of the\\nsame day they came to anchor about two leagues,\\nfrom the shore. The shoals which extended along\\nthe coast prevented the ships from coming nearer.\\nThey had, in the meantime, been discovered by\\nthe natives, who had kindled beacon-fires along\\nthe beach, now known as Pinellas, as signals to\\ncollect their forces and be in readiness to repel\\ntheir enemies. De Soto s vessels were anchored\\noff the mouth of Tampa Bay, called by the Span-\\niards the Bay of Espiritu Santo.\\nThe Natchez, who inhabited the neighboring\\ncountry, were governed by a chief named Ucita,", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 7r\\nwhose hatred of the Spaniards is easily explained.\\nWhen Pamphilo de Narvaez visited this region in\\n1528, he was kindly received and hospitably en-\\ntertained by the Chief Ucita, and a treaty of\\npeace between them was formed yet, on a very\\nslight pretense, the wily and bloodthirsty Pam-\\nphilo caused the chief s nose to be cut off, and\\nhis aged mother to be torn to pieces by dogs\\nHence, the reason why Ucita displayed implaca-\\nble resentment in his behavior to De Soto and his\\ncompanions in arms.\\nThus, it will be seen that from the earliest his-\\ntory of our country, the aborigines have been\\ntreated with the most impolitic and unchristian-\\nlike barbarity; and it is highly probable that\\nmuch of that ferocity which characterizes the In-\\ndians of the far West at this time, may be ascribed\\nto the harsh and merciless treatment which their\\nancestors received from the early Spanish ex-\\nplorers, who acted on the principle that the In-\\ndians had no rights that a white man was bound to\\nrespect.\\nWishing to avoid a collision with the Indians\\nat that time, De Soto weighed anchor, and pro-\\nceeded with his fleet two leagues further up the\\nbay, where he disembarked his troops in boats. The\\nplace where he landed was on the eastern shore\\nof Hillsborough Bay, above the mouth of the\\nLittle Manatee River, and near the line which\\nseparates Hillsborough and Manatee Counties.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "7 2 Notes from Sunland.\\nThe Indians being anxious to get rid of De Soto\\nand his followers, informed them that El Dorado^\\nfor which they were seeking, was further north-\\nward. De Soto sent his ships back to Havana,\\nand commenced his toilsome march overland,\\nwhich ended with his death and burial in the\\nMississippi River, on the 5th day of June, 1542,\\nthree years and one month after the date of his\\narrival in Tampa Bay,", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "CHAPTKIl VI.\\nSunnyside Orange AND Banana Groves Lemons\\nAND Limes Coffee Trees and Pine-apples Cali-\\nfornia Grapes Quality of the Land Mode of\\nCultivation Florida, Past, Present and Future\\nIncreased Production Better and Cheaper Trans-\\nportation Interrogatories and Answers.\\nHaving given the reader a hasty outline of the\\nManatee region, I will add a brief resume of my\\npersonal experience at Sunnyside during the\\npast eighteen months. On my arrival in Braiden-\\ntown, in the fall of 1879, my land was a howling\\nwilderness. At this time I have a young orange\\ngrove of six hundred trees, sixty lemon, fifteen\\nlime, ten guava, half a dozen olive, two soft-shell\\nalmond, twenty coffee, four each Japan plum and\\npersimmon, two pomegranate, two cocoa-nut and\\nfour Le Conte pear trees, all of which are growing\\nluxuriantly. I also have one acre in bananas and\\nsixty pine-apple plants, both of which will bear\\nfruit next year. Around the fence inclosing my\\nhouse lot, I have sixty California grape-vines of\\nthe choicest varieties, viz. Flaming Tokay,\\nWhite Muscat of Alexandria, Mission and Rose\\nof Peru. The vines are looking well, and will\\nbear fruit next year.\\n75", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "7^ Notes from Sunland.\\n_ The land on which I am located is spruce-pine\\ninterspersed with water-oak and scrub palmetto\\nwhich would be pronounced by the average Flo\\nndian worthless. I had at the commencement\\nand still have, abiding faith in the white sand of\\nFlorida with a mulatto sub-soil. No matter how\\nwhite the surface, if underlaid by a mulatto or\\nyellow sub-soil, the citrus family will thrive The\\nfoliage of my young trees is dark green, and their\\nvigorous growth astonishes the -crackers, who\\npredicted a failure. Owing to the mildness of\\nthe chmate-my location being exempt from frost\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094my trees grew all last winter. My orange trees\\nare set in parallel rows, thirty feet apart each\\nway the lemon and lime trees twenty-five feet\\napart; the bananas twelve feet, and the pine-\\napples two feet apart. I hoe my grove every two\\nmonths, and plow it four times a year. Thus by\\nkeeping the soil constantly tickled with the hoe\\nmy trees laugh with a bountiful foliage. What I\\nhave done, can be performed by others. There\\nIS no secret about the matter. We welcome im-\\nmigrants from the frigid North, from the prairies\\nof the West, and from the lands beyond the sea.\\nTo all we say, come and tarry with us.\\nFlorida, the first State belonging to the Union,\\ndiscovered and settled by Europeans, has, during\\nthe past 350 years, been hustled about from pillar\\nto post like a shuttle-cock. The repeated Indian", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 7 7\\nwars from 1816 to 1858, rendered life so insecure,\\nthat the early settlers literally carried their lives\\nin their hands. Is it then a matter of surprise\\nthat Florida is so sparsely populated? Mr. J. S.r\\nAdams, former Commissioner of Immigration\\ntruthfully remarks: The wonder truly is, not\\nthat she has not attained a more flourishing con-\\ndition, but that she exists at all, and that her\\nboundless forests, her lovely rivers and her beau^\\ntiful lakes are not fast locked in the silent embrace\\nof a moveless desolation. Since slavery, which\\nrested like an incubus of original sin on the soil\\nof Florida, has been removed, immigration has\\nbeen pouring in from the North and the West,\\nand from the isles of the ocean. Germany, Italy,\\nFrance and England have each furnished their\\nquota, and the forests along the line of the rail-\\nroads, as well as those accessible by steamboats,\\nare beginning to show the effects of an advanced\\ncivilization. The gigantic undertaking of drain-\\ning Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades, to-\\ngether with the construction of a ship canal, con-\\nnecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of\\nMexico, by Mr. Hamilton Disston, of Philadel-\\nphia, and his coadjutors, is proof positive that anew\\nera is beginning to dawn on the Land of Flowers,\\nand, ere many years, the southern portion of the\\nState will be one vast orange grove, interspersed\\nwith the guava, lemon, lime, pine-apple and ba-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "78 Notes from Sunland.\\nnana. I hear the skeptic say: You will over-\\nstock the market, and your fruit will not pay the\\ncost of transportation. The orange pa7 excel-\\nlence can be grown only in the soil of Florida,\\ntherefore competition with foreign countries need\\nnot be feared. Florida will soon be able to sup-\\nply the cities of the Mediterranean with a superior\\nfruit to that grown on their own shores, and more\\n-cheaply. Increased production and transporta-\\ntion will cause a corresponding reduction in\\nfreight, and also insure greater and better facili-\\nties in the modes of transportation. There will\\nalso be a large reduction in price to the consumer,\\nwhich will enable the man of limited means in\\nother words, the poor man to indulge with the\\nmillionaire in the daily luxury of the golden apple\\nof the Hesperides the Florida orange. The\\nabove may be deemed by some persons chimeri-\\ncal, but time, the great arbiter of events, will solve\\nthe problem.\\nBy every mail I am in receipt of letters asking\\n.all manner of questions in relation to the climate,\\n5oil, productions, etc., of this part of Florida.\\nAt first I cheerfully complied with the requests of\\nmy numerous correspondents, but the novelty has\\nAvorn off, and the task has become slightly mo-\\nnotonous. Recently, I received a four-page cap-\\nsheet letter from a gentleman in Utah Territory,\\nto which was appended seventeen interrogatories", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 19\\nin relation to the Gulf Coast of South Florida.\\nThat straw broke the camel s back, and, in reply\\nto the following question: I see by the last\\ncensus that Manatee County has a population of\\nover 4,000, and not a death recorded for 1880.\\nDo people ever die there? I wrote immediately,\\nHardly ever. When we want to start a grave-\\nyard, we kill a man. I am firmly impressed\\nwith the belief that my Mormon correspondent,\\nwith a family of ten persons, will not immi-\\ngrate to the Land of Flowers. Below will be found\\ntwenty-five questions in relation to Florida, from\\ncorrespondents the wide world over, with an-\\nswers appended\\nI St. At any time of the year do you have\\nsevere storms of thunder and lightning?\\nDuring the rainy season, thunder showers, ac-\\ncompanied by lightning, frequently occur, but\\nthey are not more severe than in the Northern and\\nWestern States.\\n2d. Arc venomous reptiles numerous?\\nDuring my residence and travels in Florida, I\\nliave never seen a rattlesnake I have seen a few\\nmoccasin, garter, coachwhip and blacksnakes.\\nThe two latter are harmless, and are seldom killed\\nby the natives. Alligators are not numerous in\\nthis vicinity, and are comparatively harmless.\\nScorpions and centipedes are seldom met with.\\nTheir sting is no more severe than that of a bee.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "Notes fro?n Swtland.\\n3d. ^^Is the land about Braidentown sandy or\\nclayey?\\nThe land on the margin of the bay is sandy:\\nfurther back in the hammock, the soil is dark gray\\nand chocolate color, underlaid with clay and lime-\\nStone.\\n4th. Are the people mostly Northern^\\nLike an Englishman s favorite beverage, thev\\nare alf-and- alf.\\n5th. -What is the name of your nearest town\\nof any importance?\\nHave no towns of -importance in this section\\nof the country; they are in the womb of time-\\nnot hatched yet.\\n6th. What is the character of your society^\\nMixed.\\n7th. -Do you consider Florida as healthy as\\nCalifornia?\\nI consider this Manatee region the sanitarium\\nof the world. A more healthful spot cannot be\\nfound on God s footstool.\\n8th. Do malarial fevers prevail in your section\\nany time during the year?\\nIn the rich, low hammock lands, where vegeta-\\ntion IS rank, malarial fevers exist in the fall of the\\nyear. Chills and fever here yield more readily to\\nproper medical treatment than in the West. Pine\\nland is exempt from malaria\\nins:?\\n9th. -Does the summer heat prove enervat-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunlarid. Si\\nThat depends on a man s constitution. If born\\ntired, yes.\\nloth. as it true that the summer weather with\\nyou is more pleasant less oppressive than at the\\nNorth?\\nYes; the thermometer rarely registers more than\\n96^. It reached that point only twice last summer,\\nnth. Are the nights in summer always cool\\nGenerally; sometimes cooler than in the winter.\\n1 2th. Can you work out of doors during the\\nday in summer time\\nYes, when it does not rain. I have not seen a\\nday too hot to work out of doors since my arrival\\nin Florida.\\n13th. Do the crops of vegetables and grass\\nburn under the summer sun\\nWe don t raise vegetables in the summer. Our\\nvegetables are grown in the winter and spring,\\nwhen the land at the North is locked fast in the\\nembrace of frost and ice. The grass here is very\\nnutritious, and large herds of cattle fatten on it.\\nThis section of country supplies Cuba with beef.\\n14th. Are insects\u00e2\u0080\u0094 fleas and mosquitoes-\\nmore troublesome than at the North?\\nFleas sometimes make it lively with us; but\\nthere are fewer mosquitoes in this locality than in\\na majority of the Northern States.\\n15th. Do you consider Manatee County one\\nof the best to settle in?", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "p Notes from Sunland.\\nIt suits me better than any other part of Florida,\\nYou might go further and fare worse.\\ni6th. Do you think the Gulf Coast equal to\\nthe Atlantic Coast for climate, health, etc.?\\nYes far superior.\\n17th. What is the price of land in your sec-\\ntion?\\nThat depends upon quality and location. Here,\\nin the settlement of Braidentown, land is selling\\nat from $25 to $100 per acre. A short distance\\nback of the town, pine land can be purchased at\\nfrom ,$1.50 to $5 per acre and hammock land at\\n^10 per acre. Across the bay, nearly opposite\\nManatee, on the Patten plantation, good ham-\\nmock land, once under cultivation, can be pur-\\nchased at from $15 to ^25 per acre, according to\\nlocation. This land is being rapidly metamor-\\nphosed into vegetable gardens, whose products-\\ntomatoes, cucumbers, beans, peas, etc.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 reach the\\nNorthern markets during the month of ^larch.\\n1 8th. What are the business prospects for a\\nnew-com.er^\\nThat will depend a great deal on the new-\\ncomer. Come, investigate and judge for your-\\nself.\\n19. Can sugar-cane be grown to advantage in\\nyour neighborhood? and what amount of sugar\\ncan be made to the acre\\nThe Manatee region is the natural home of the", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Nates from Sunland. 83\\nsugar-cane. Here it tassels, and consequently\\nfully matures. Florida is the only State of the\\nUnion in which the cane tassels. When the Co-\\nfield and Davis, now Patten plantation, was in\\nfull operation, the average product was two hogs-\\nheads of sugar to the acre. The cane here ra-\\ntoons from six to eight years.\\n20th. What is the cost of clearing land\\nThat depends on the quality of the land. The\\naverage pine land can be cleared and grubbed at\\nfrom $10 to $20 per acre. Hammock land will\\ncost double that price.\\n2 1 St. Can lumber be had on the Manatee, and\\nif SO, at what price?\\nHeart-pine lumber, suitable for fencing or\\nbuilding purposes, can be had here at ^15 per M.\\nLight wood posts can be purchased at ^10 per\\nhundred.\\n2 2d. What is the price of labor in your vicin-\\nity?\\nColored laborers can be hired at from $15 to\\n$20 per month, with board or rations. The price\\nis $1 per day when the laborer boards himself.\\n23d. Are fish, oysters and game plentiful?\\nOur rivers and bayous are literally alive with\\nmullet the mackerel of the South. Sea-trout\\n(black bass), jack-fish, sheepshead, red-fish, angel-\\nfish, drum and pompino can also be had in abund-\\nance in the water around Palm Key, at the mouth", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "84 Noies from Sunland,\\nof the bay. Oysters and clams of a superior\\nquality can be had in Terraceia and Sarasoto Bays.\\nDeer, squirrels, quail and wild turkeys abound in\\nthe adjoining hammocks.\\n24th. Can you refer me to any person in your\\nvicinity whose health has been benefited by the\\nclimate?\\nYes several. Rev. Edmund Lee, of Manatee,\\narrived here forty-five years ago, a confirmed in-\\nvalid in fact, nearly gone with pulmonary con-\\nsumption. On his first arrival he was so weak\\nthat it required considerable effort to pull a mullet\\noff a grid-iron. The healthfulness of the climate,\\ntogether with out-door exercise and a clear con-\\nscience, have enabled him to fight the flesh and\\nthe devil successfully to the present time. He is\\nat this time a well-preserved patriarch of seventy-\\ntwo years has outlived two wives, and bids fair\\nto remain many years longer on this side of Jor-\\ndan.\\nMr, John M. Helm, residing some three miles\\nsouth-east of Braidentown, arrived from Windsor,\\nInd., about four years since. He also was nearly\\ngone with consumption. One lung was hepatized,\\nand on the other a tubercle formed, and dis-\\ncharged after his arrival here. Physicians at the\\nWest pronounced his case hopeless beyopd the\\nreach of medicine and recommended the cli-\\nmate of Florida as a last resort. He is now a well", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sun/and. ^5\\nman, and can hoe more orange trees in a day, and\\nhoe them better, than any man I know in Florida.\\nTwo years ago I arrived here, clad in porous-\\nplasters, suffering with chronic rheumatism. Two\\nmonths later I was as frisky as a lamb in spring\\ntime. I am convinced that my old complaint has\\nleft me never to return, so long as I remain here.\\nI could record other cases, but the above must\\nsuffice for the present.\\n25th. State the most direct route to Braiden-\\ntown.\\nBy rail to Cedar Key, the terminus of railroad\\ncommunication, thence by the boats of the Tampa\\nSteamship Company to this place. A boat leaves\\nCedar Key on Monday and Friday afternoon of\\neach week, and arrives at Braidentown early on\\nthe following morning. Fare, ^8. The above is\\nthe advertised programme, but it is sometimes\\nchanged to suit wind and weather. Captains\\nJackson and Doane are thorough seamen, and do\\neverything in their power to render passengers\\ncomfortable. Whatever may be the opinion of\\ntravelers in regard to the speed and accommoda-\\ntions of the boats, they will unanimously agree\\nthat the fare 18 for a distance of less than 100\\nmiles is first-class. A line of light draught,\\nmodern-built and comfortably fitted-up steam-\\nboats, between Cedar Key and Braidentown,\\nwould be liberally patronized. Shall we have the\\nboats? Echo repeats the question.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nFlorida Letter Published in a California Paper.\\nEditorial Remarks The Fountain of Youth\\nThe Manatee River and its Surroundings Tropi-\\ncal Fruits Game and Fish The Sportsman s Par-\\nadise Letter to the Editress of the Philadel-\\nphia Sunday Times The Land of Promise\\nSunstroke and Hydrophobia Unknown Cooi.\\nNights During the Dog Days Preparing the\\nLand and Planting an Orange Grove The Flo-\\nrida Orange Route to the Manatee Climate of\\nthe Gulf Coast of South Florida Record of\\nThermometer and Rainfall for the Year 1880\\nNo Frost Report in Relation to the Effects of\\nthe Freeze on the Atlantic Coast in December\\nLast.\\nAs THE following letters and communications\\nhave a direct bearing on the Manatee region, the\\nreader will pardon their republication. Among\\nthe chaff perchance may be found a few grains of\\ninformation that will pay for the perusal. The\\nfirst letter was written to a personal friend in the\\ncity of New York, who forwarded it to the San\\nFrancisco Examiner. It was first published in that\\npaper with the following editorial remarks\\nOld Californians are not unfamiliar with the name of Mr.\\n:-:Samuel C. Upham, an editor upon this coast in the early", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sun/and. 87\\nlays, :.ncl, of late, the author of a work entitled Voyage to\\nCalifornia via Cape Horn, and Scenes in El Dorado in i849-\\nand 1850. We are permitted to copy a letter from that gen-\\ntleman, written in his hmnorous style, and addressed to an\\nold Californian friend, which may prove of interest to others.\\nPhiladelphia, June j6f/i, iSjg.\\nFriend C I owe you a letter, and the following is\\nwhat I have to say You are aware that I v^ent South last\\nwinter for the benefit of my health, and that I returned in the\\nspring as frisky as a lamb. The late hot weather has pulled\\nme down considerably, and I sigh for the Land of Flowers,\\nwhere Ponce de Leon searched for the fountain of youth, and\\nUpham found it. I was so charmed with the climate of the\\nGulf Goast of vSouth Florida, that, while there last winter, I\\npurchased 225 acres of land on the Manatee River, fifty\\nmiles south of Tampa, and Mrs. U. and myself are going\\ndown to that land of promise the coming fall, to plant an.\\norange grove, and sit under our own vine, orange and euca-\\nlyptus trees. It is a delightful country, away down below\\nfrost line, where the pine-apple, banana, guava, sapadillo,\\npomegranate, date, cocoa-nut, orange, lime and lemon grow\\nalmost spontaneously. The rivers are overflowing A\\\\ith fish,\\nand the forests are overrun with game. Roasted wild turkeys\\nrun about with carving-knives and forks sticking in their\\nbracks, and ask to be eaten. The country now is a trifle A\\\\ild,\\nl^ut will soon become tamed and civilized. The peoi)le are\\nhospitable, and welcome all classes of strangers, with the ex-\\nception of carpet-baggers. They have been tried and\\nfound wanting.\\nI shall locate in the village\u00e2\u0080\u0094 if two stores and four houses\\ncan be dignified by that name\u00e2\u0080\u0094 of Braidentown, Manatee\\nCounty, Florida. The place is scarcely twelve months old,\\nbut is bound to be heard from\u00e2\u0080\u0094 after I locate there. The-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": ".83\\nNotes from Sunland.\\n-a.mate is delightful-sort of an earthly Paradise. The ther\\nmometer during the winter months ranges from 70\u00c2\u00b0 to yco\\nand n. summer rarely exceeds 90\u00c2\u00b0, with a sea-breeze blov^;:\\nconstantly either from the Atlantic or the Gulf. The niaht!\\nm summer are invariably cool, and one can lie comfortably\\nunder blankets during dog days.\\nI do not expect to make^noney in Florida, but I do ex\\nof my exodus. I shall, first off, plant an orange grove of 500\\ntrees, which, m eight years, barring accidents, ought to yield me\\na handsome revenue. Should I shuffle off this mortal coil\\nbefore these orange trees commence bearing, I shall feel dis-\\nappointed-that s all. I think the change will give me a\\nTe? llr T;/ I ^tend to plant three%ars-oH\\n^rees I think the chances are rather in my favor. The Good\\nBook says What does it profit a man if he gain the whole\\nworld and ose his own life I am not prepared to hand\\nm my checks just yet; hence my change of base. I have\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2been watching and praying the past four or five years for the\\ngood time coming to put in an appearance, but it has not\\narrived, .nd will not, I fear, during my sojourn in this vale\\not tears. I have a mortal dread of the poor-house. In Florida\\nthat institution is unknown. My eldest son will take charge\\nof my store and laboratory in this city, so the business wUl\\ngo on without interruption. As I have spun out this letter to\\na great length, I will say domino.\\nTruly yours,\\nS. C. Upham.\\nThe following letter was published originally\\nin laggart s Philadelphia Sunday Times, under\\nthe following caption Life in Florida. Inter-\\nesting letter from Samuel C. Upham, formerly of", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. ^9\\nPhiladelphia, but now located in Florida, ad-\\ndressed to our lady editress. Hints to those who*\\nmay wish to visit the Flowery Land.\\nSuNNYsiDE Cottage,\\nBraidentown, Fla., June 8th, 1880.\\nMy Dear Mrs. Bladen: In the Sunday Times of the\\n30th ult., you say:\\nMr. Samuel C. Upham, whose popular songs and won-\\nderful California experiences render him a Philadelphia celeb-\\nrity, has a large plantation near Jacksonville.\\nIt is pleasing to know, when one is far away, that he is not\\nentirely forgotten by his friends but you are slightly mistaken\\nwhen you say I own a large orange plantation near Jack-\\nsonville. I am located on the Manatee River, some eight\\nmiles above its entrance into Tampa Bay, on the Gulf coast\\nof South Florida, in latitude 27^\u00c2\u00b0, and below frost line.\\nI visited Jacksonville and all the towns and landings on the\\nSt. Johns, Halifax and Matanzas Rivers, and also did the\\nSuwanee pretty thoroughly before locating in Braidentown.\\nI prefer this part of Florida to the Atlantic coast for the fol-\\nlowing reasons: Heathfulness of climate, purity of water\\nand immunity from frost and insects. My health has im-\\nproved wonderfully since my arrival in the Land of Plowers,\\nand I am pretty thoroughly convinced that I have obtained a\\nnew lease of life. The sea breezes that fan my brov/ at\\nmorning, noon and night, act as a tonic on my enfeebled con-\\nstitution, and I am daily gaining strength and muscle. I have\\nto-day worked six hours in my banana grove, with the ther-\\nmometer at 90\u00c2\u00b0 in the shade, without experiencing any in-\\nconvenience from the heat. The heat is so modified by the\\nconstant sea breeze that one can work in the sun at all hours\\nof the day and at all seasons of the year. Sunstroke and", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "90 Notes from Sitnland.\\nhydrophobia are unknown here. This statement can be taken\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0without salt. In midsummer the nights are invariably cool.\\nBlankets at night are the rule, not the exception. This mucli\\nabout location and climate now, a few words about that\\norange grove.\\nMy I anch is new, and consequently rather crude. ^Vhen I\\nlocated here in November last, a large portion of it was a\\nhowding wilderness. Since that time, I have felled the\\ntrees, piled the logs, burned the brush, grubbed and fenced\\nfifteen acres, on ten acres of which I am now setting out 500\\ntwo-years-old sweet seedling orange trees, which I hope to\\nlive long enough to see bear fruit. Some two months since,\\nI set out 200 banana plants, and they are doing remarkably\\nwell many of the stalks are six feet in height. They will bear\\nfruit in about eighteen months. I also have a patch of sixty\\npine-apple plants which will bear fruit next year. I have a\\nfew coffee and tea plants, Japan plum and persimmon, pome-\\ngranate, almond and olive trees that are growing luxuriantly.\\nI brought with me from Philadelphia, half a dozen cocoa-\\nnuts, which I planted on the 1st of November last, and had\\ngiven up all hope of ever seeing them sprout, when, to my\\ngreat surprise, some two weeks since, t^o of them threw up\\nsprouts. They are now one foot high, and are growing vig-\\norously. The guava thrives admirably here. I have several\\ntrees, and expect soon to luxuriate on guava jelly of my own\\nmanufacture. I send you a few sample boxes.\\nHave you ever eaten a Florida orange, fresh plucked, that\\nripened on the tree? If not, visit Florida, and enjoy the\\ngreatest luxury of your life. It is the iv\\\\xii par excellence\\nfit food for the gods. I have, in the course of my somewhat\\neventful life, eaten oranges in the groves of the Mediterra-\\nnean, South America, Mexico and the West Indies, but none\\ncan compare the orange grown in this State. Our soil\\nis peculiarly adapted to the growth and maturity of the per-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland.\\nfed orange. No oUicr soil can produce it. The West India\\nand Louisiana seedling orange tree is wonderfully improved\\nby being transplanted in Florida soil. South Florida will,\\nere long, be one vast orange grove, and will supply the world\\nwith her incomparable fruit. She will supply the Mediterra-\\nnean ports with better oranges than can possibly be raised in\\nthat countiy. Won t that be carrying coals to Newcastle\\nI may not live to see the above prediction verified, but there\\narc persons living at this time who will.\\nIf any of your numerous friends think it would be a good\\nthing to have an orange grove, advise them to visit the Gulf\\ncoast of South Florida before locating elsewhere. Also tell\\nthem to drop in at Braidentown. They may go further and\\nfare worse. The most direct route to this place is by rail to\\nCedar Kev, the present terminus of railroad communication,\\nthence by steamer down the coast. The mail steamers leave\\nCedar Key twice a week for this place and Tampa. Leave\\nCedar Key at 4 o clock P. ^L on Monday and Friday of each\\nweek, and arrive at Braidentown at 7 o clock the following\\nmorning. A:c rcvoir. S. C. Upham.\\nThe following communication was published in\\nthe Florida Agriculturist in January last, under\\nthe caption of the Climate of the Gulf Coast of\\nSou til Florida.\\nHaving kept a record of the state of the thermometer at\\n6 o clock A. M., 12 o clock M. and 6 o clock P. M. cit Brai-\\ndentown, Manatee County, Florida, from the 1st day of Jan-\\nuary to the 31st day of December, 1 880, inclusive, I herewith\\ninclose you a synopsis of the same for publication in the\\nAcrriculturist, with the hope that it may interest your numer-\\nous readers, especially those in the Northern and Western-\\nStates who are seeking homes in\\nThe land of the orange and guava.\\nThe pine-apple, date and cassava.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "92 Notes from Sun land.\\nI also send a statement of the rainfall for the year iSSo.\\nTemperature.\\nAverage temperature at 6 o clock A. M.. ,/o\\nAverage temperatm-e at 1 2 o clock M., s!^\\nAverage temperature at 6 o clock P M ^Z%\\nHighest temperature at 12 o clock M. July is t nncl\\nAugust 26th,\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A. M./Dec. jist, ^S^\\nRainfall.\\nJanuary,\\nFebruar}\\nMarch,\\nApril,\\nMay,\\nJune,\\nA^ gust,\\nSeptember, 10\\nOctober,\\nNovember,\\nDecember,\\nTotal,\\nRainfall dunng year,\\nAt least one-half the days classed as cloudy and partly\\nel T l -i-W of\\ne ramy days were clear three-fourths of the day Dur-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. g^\\ning the gale on the 29th and 30th of last August, which wxs\\nso [destructive on the Atlantic coast of the State, rain fell\\nhere almost uninterruptedly for nearly forty-eight hours, but\\nthe wind did little or no damage. The rainfall during the\\ntwo days was six and one-half inches, the heaviest of the\\nseason. I have resided here during the past fourteen months,\\nand, up to this time (January 7th, 1 881), there has been no\\nfrosty and my tropical fruits and plants have grown luxu-\\nriantly every month of the year. The year just closed, in its\\ndying throes, kicked the mercury in the thermometer down\\nto 2,%\u00c2\u00b0, and a slight frost occun-ed on the opposite side of the\\nManate\u00c2\u00ab River, and also in the hammock four or five miles\\nsouth-east of Braidentown. The water protection ^being\\nsurrounded on three sides by the aqueous fluid has rendered\\nBraidentown exempt from frost.\\nAlthough the rainfall of 1 880 has been some nine inches\\nin excess of the average rainfall in this State, I have passed\\none of the most agreeable summers of my life. While the\\ndenizens of the St. Johns and Atlantic coast are shivering in\\nthe chilling blasts of ^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2inter, we on the Gulf coast of South\\nFlorida are basking in the sun, with a temperature of 65\u00c2\u00b0 at\\n6 o clock A. M., 75\u00c2\u00b0 at 12 o clock M. and 70\u00c2\u00b0 at 6 o clock\\nP. M. If any locality north of latitude 27^\u00c2\u00b0 can present a\\nmore favorable record, BraidentONsn \\\\\\\\-ill yield the palm.\\nNotis verrons.\\nS. C. Upham.\\nSuNNYSiDE Cottage,\\nBraidentown, Fla., Jan. 7th, 1881.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "94\\nNotes from Siinland,\\nBRAIDENTOWN, SOUTH FLORIDA.\\nEditor of the Florida Agriculturist\\nSeveral of your Northern and Western subscribers wha\\nread the communication.! published in the Agriculturist\\nin January last, giving a synopsis of the climate of the Mana-\\ntee region during the year 1880, and which was repro-\\nduced in my recently published book, Notes from Sun-\\nland, have requested me to publish in your journal a state-\\nment of the thermometer, rainfall etc., in Braidentown for\\nthe year 1881. I have furnished the desired information as^\\nbriefly as possible\\nTEMPERATURE.\\nAverage temperature at 6 o clock a. m., 7i/ 8^\\nAverage temperature at 12 o clock m., 83\u00c2\u00b0\\nAverage temperature at 6 o clock p. M., 78%\u00c2\u00b0\\nHighest temperature at 12 o clock m., July 7th and August 4th, 96\u00c2\u00b0\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock, a. m., January 26th and\\nNovember 25th, 44O\\nc\\ni\\nnfall.\\nwhich\\nFell.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a22\\nen\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0o\\nc\\n.o\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2/I\\nQ\\nCJ\\nJanu.iry,\\nFebruary,\\nMarch,\\nApril,\\nMay,.\\nTune,\\nJuly,\\nAugust,\\nSeptember,\\nOctober,\\nNovember,\\nDecember,\\nTotal,\\n53^8 jr..\\n2 6 1\\n2 14 in.\\n2^4 in.-\\n6iX in-\\ni,y. in.\\naM, in.\\ni 4 in.\\n2^ in.\\n42H\\n5\\n8\\n17\\n95\\n17\\n6\\n8\\n19\\n7\\n156\\nCJ\\nM\\n25\\n22\\n18\\n9\\n9\\n12\\n24\\n19\\n209", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland. 95\\n\\\\Yhen the cUfterence of rainfall for the years 1880 and 81\\nis taken into consideration, the equability of the tempera-\\nlure for the two years is a surprising and strange coincidence,\\nthere being less than one degree Fahrenheit in the average\\ntemperature of the two years. The rainfall for the year 1881\\nwas iS inches below the average on the Gulf coast, which is\\n60 inches, the difference between the years 1880 and Si\\nbeing 27 inches; that of 1880 being ^y. inches in excess\\nof the average rainfall. Although we had, comparatively\\nspeaking, no rainy season last year, vegetation and crops\\nhave not suffered from drouth. The vegetable gardeners\\nhereabout were never more sanguine of large crops. Cucum-\\nbers, squashes, and turnips have already been shipped by\\nthem to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and toma-\\ntoes in abundance will follow next month. Several truck-\\nmen from Fairbanks and other places on the Transit Railroad\\nare this year engaged in raising ^arly vegetables in the ham-\\nmocks bordering the Manatee.\\nThe mercury in the thermometer reached 96 degrees only\\ntwice the past year; and the lowest point indicated was 44\\ndegrees on the morning of the 26th of January and 25th of\\nNovember\u00e2\u0080\u0094 12 degrees above the freezing point. We had\\nno frost during the year. My alligator pears, cherimoyas,\\ncustard apples, sapodillas, sour sops, pineapples, cocoanut\\ntrees, and other tropical fruits are growing luxuriantly and\\nmy wife s camelia japonicas, hibiscus, and rose bushes in the\\nopen air, are in full bloom. In conclusion, allow me to re-\\niterate what I said last year If any locality north of lati-\\ntude 27^2 degrees can present a more favorable record,\\nJJraidentown will yield the palm.*\\nS. C. Ul HAM.\\nJanuary 2d, 1 882.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "9 6 Notes from Sunlatid,\\nSYNOPSIS OF THE WEATHER RECORD\\nAT BRAIDENTOWN FOR THE\\nYEAR 1882.\\nDuring a three years residence in Braidentown, I have-\\nkept a thermometrical record of the weather, also a register\\nof the rainfall. A synopsis of my observations for the years\\n1880 and 81 was published in the Florida Agriculiurist, in\\nthe months of January, 1 881 and 82, In my Notes from\\nSunland, published in the fall of 1 88 1, I gave meteorolog-\\nical tables of the temperature and rainfall at Braidentown,.\\ncommencing with the month of January, 1880, and ending^\\nwith March, 1 881 fifteen months. In those tables I gave\\nthe record of the thermometer at 6 o clock a. m., 12 o clock\\nM., and 6 o clock r. m. For the information of my readers,\\nand also of numerous correspondents at the North and West,.\\nI publish the following summary of the temperature and\\nrainfall for the year 1882\\nTEMrERATURE.\\nAverage temperature at 6 o clock A. M.,\\nAverage temperature at 12 o clock M.,\\nAverage temperature at 6 o clock p. M.,\\nHighest temperature at 12 o clock M., July 19th,\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock a. m., December 17th,\\n71\u00c2\u00b0\\n78\u00c2\u00b0\\n96\u00c2\u00b0\\n38^", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sit nl and.\\n97\\nJanuary,\\nFebruary,\\nMarch,\\nApril,\\nMay,\\nJune,\\nJuly\\nAugust,\\nSeptember,\\nOctober,\\nNovember,\\nDecember,\\nc\\n11 tit\\nPL,Q\\n^13\\no\\ny anc\\noudy\\nIT.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2BCJ\\nrt\\no\\nQ\\nO\\n2^4 in-\\ni^in.\\nsin-\\nsKin-\\n1% in,\\n7 in.\\niYa, in-\\n7K in-\\n2j^ in.\\n3^ in.\\n1^2 in.\\n45 in.\\nO\\n5\\n9\\n22\\n3\\n6\\n22\\n4\\nID\\n21\\n7\\n20\\n10\\n6\\n19\\n12\\nlO\\n23\\n7\\n20\\n22\\n9\\n\u00c2\u00bb5\\n15\\n16\\n9\\n13\\n17\\n9\\n20\\n5\\nII\\n19\\n8\\n12\\n19\\nTotal,\\n171 i 194\\nAlthough the difference in the rainfall between the year\\n1880 and the years 1881 and 82, was 27 j4 inches in the\\nformer and 26 j4 inches in the latter year, there was not a\\nchange of one degree Fahrenheit in the mean temperature of\\nthe three years, which indicates a remarkable equability of\\ntemperature. From the above it would seem that the tem-\\nperature is not governed by the rainfall. In 18S0, rain fell\\non 104 days; in 1881, on 95 days, and on loi days in\\n1882.\\nIn 1880 there were 177 cloudy and partially cloudy days;\\n156 in 1881, and 171 in 1882. In 1880 there were 188\\nclear days 209 in 81, and 194 in 82. The days on which\\nrain fell were seldom rainy days, in the common accepta-\\ntion of the term. Showers from one-half to one hour s du-\\nration were the rule, and an occasional rainy day the excep-\\ntion.\\nThe highest temperature recorded during the three years", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "qS ^^ot(.\\\\\\\\ /fo/n SimlainL\\nwas 96\u00c2\u00b0 at 12 o clock M., on the 1st of July and 26th of\\nAugust, 1880; July 7th and August \u00c2\u00a3^\\\\i, i88l,and on July\\n19th, 1882. The lowest temperature during the three years,\\nwa5 38^ at 6 o clock A. M., on December 31st, 18S0; 44\u00c2\u00b0\\n^on January 26th and November 25th, 1881, aad 38\u00c2\u00b0 on\\nDecember 17th, 1882. Braidentown being surrounded on\\nthree sides by water, has, during the past three years, escaped\\ndamage by frost, although we do not claim to be below the\\nmythical frost line. The hammocks on the opposite side\\nof the Manatee River, and on Orange and Bee Ridges, south\\nof Braidentown, have been visited by frost, and vegetation\\nand tropical fruits have been injured.\\nFrom the ravages of hurricanes, tornadoes, and cyclones\\nwhich occasionally visit the Atlantic coast, and sweep across\\nthe northern and extreme southern portions of our State, we\\nare comparatively free. That portion of the Gulf coast of\\nSouth Florida, lying between Clear Water and Charlotte Har-\\nbor, has, for some unexplained reason\u00e2\u0080\u0094 probably the piety\\nof its inhabitants\u00e2\u0080\u0094 been exempt from hurricanes and torna-\\ndoes during the past forty years. I do not believe that\\nthe Manatee region is fully entitled to the appellation of Par-\\nadise but I do believe that our citizens are as near that\\nbeatific place as they ever will be while in the flesh. If any\\none knows of a more desirable location on earth, or in the\\nwaters under the earth, I shall be pleased to record the\\nfact.\\nS. C. Upham.\\nJanuary 3^, 1883.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "SuNNYSiDE Cottage,\\nBraidentown, Fla., Fib. ^th, iSSj.\\nD. II. Elliott, Esq.,\\nSec. Florida Fntit Groovers Association^\\nJacksonville, Fla.,\\nDeak. Sir: In the Report of the Proceedings of the\\nEighth Annual Meeting of the Florida Fruit Growers As-\\n.sociation, held in Jacksonville on the 27 ult., and published\\nin the Daily Union of that city on the following morning,\\nthe annexed resolution was published, with the name of your\\nhumble servant appended as one of the committee\\nResolved, That a committee l e appointed to investigate\\nthe effects of the late freeze on the orange and other fruits\\nand vegetables said committee to i-eport to the secretary at\\nJacksonville at the earliest practicable moment.\\nHaving received no official notice of my appointment to\\nserve oil the aforesaid committee, I have resolved myself into\\na committee of one, and have the honor to respectfully report\\nas follows\\nThe old and trite aphorism If the mountain \\\\vill not\\ncome to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain\\nseems peculiarly applicable to the above resolution. Ergo,\\nif the orange and other fruits of the citrus family will not\\nthrive mid frost and ice, cultivate them in a more genial\\nclimate. With the experience of last fall and tlie })rescnt.\\nwinter before me, together with a careful investigation of the\\nclimatology of Florida during the past fifty years, I have\\ncome to the conclusion that the fruits comprising tlie citrus\\nfamily cannot be successfully cultivated in this State north of\\nthe 28th parallel of latitude, anil the sooner and more widely\\nthis fact is promulgated, the better it will Ije for all persons\\ninterested or about to become interested in this laudable and\\ngrowing industry. The fact that the late freeze killed tlie-", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "loo Notes from Sunland.\\nscale insects on the orange trees in middle and north Florida,\\nis cold comfort for those engaged in orange culture. There\\nare fruits better adapted to the climate of Florida north of\\nlatitude 28\u00c2\u00b0 than the orange, lemon, lime, guava, banana and\\npine-apple. Why, then, persist in endeavoring to cultivate\\nthose fruits with so dim a prospect of success It is kicking\\nagainst the pricks, hoping against hope. In conclusion, plant\\nyour orange, lemon, lime and banana groves below the 28th\\nparallel of latitude, tickle the soil constantly -vvlth the hoe,\\nand success will crown your efforts. So mote it be.\\nS. C. Upham.", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland.\\nlOl\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Thermometer and Rainfall at BraidentowKy\\nFlorida^ for the month of January, jS8o, with Remarks\\nin relation to Wind and IVeather.\\nDate.\\n13\\n14\\n1.S\\n16\\n17\\n18\\n20\\n=4\\n25\\n26\\n27\\n28\\n29\\n30\\n65\\n64\\n68\\n64\\n66\\n64\\n62\\n62\\n62\\n61\\n62\\n62\\n64\\n58\\n58\\n55\\n58\\n55\\n52\\n53\\n56\\n64\\n65\\n54\\n58\\n71\\n64\\n58\\n58\\n63\\n62\\nSlims, j 1,788\\nAvgc siVi\\n80\\n78\\n82\\n80\\n80\\n80\\n80\\n78\\n82\\n84\\n82\\n82\\n74\\n78\\n7S\\n86\\n78\\n76\\n74\\n78\\n78\\n76\\n82\\n58\\n73\\n78\\n68\\n66\\n80\\n86\\n80\\n2,315\\n74K\\nvo\\n76\\n76\\n74\\n77\\n74\\n74\\n72\\n70\\n72\\n75\\n72\\n74\\n70\\n73\\n72\\n68\\n72\\n66\\n70\\n68\\n70\\n72\\n56\\n58\\n70\\n70\\n62\\n63\\n72\\n70\\n70\\n2,168\\n70\\nWind at\\nM.\\nRainfall.\\nE.\\nE.\\nE.\\nE.\\nS. E.\\nE.\\nN. W.\\nW.\\nW.\\nE.\\nE.\\nE.\\nN.E.\\nE.\\nS.\\nE.\\nW.\\nN. W.\\nE.\\nS.W.\\ns.\\ns.\\nw.\\nN.W.\\nE.\\nS.W.\\nW.\\nN.W.\\nW.\\nJ/iin.\\n2 in.\\n/sin.\\n5^ in.\\nsHin-\\nRemarks.\\nCloudy A.M., clear P.M.\\nClear.\\nA. M. clear, P. M. cloudy.\\nClear with strong E. wind.\\nClear A. M., cloudy P. M\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nClear.\\nCloudy.\\nClear.\\nCloudy.\\nRain A. M., clear P. M.\\nClear A. M., rain P. M.\\nCloudy.\\nRain A. M., clear P. M.\\nCloudy.\\nClear.\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A. M., 19th inst\u00e2\u0080\u009e 52\\nHighest 12 M., 16th and 30th insts 86\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "I02\\nNotes from Sunland.\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Thermometer and Rainfall at Braidentorvn,\\nFlorida, for the month of February, iS8o, ivith Remarks\\nin relatio7i to Wind and Weather.\\nDate.\\nRemarks.\\nNO\\nI\\n64\\n76\\n63\\nN.W.\\nCloudy. [all day.\\n2\\n62\\n80\\n73\\nS.\\nV% in.\\nRain at night. Strong wind\\n3\\n66\\n70\\n62\\nN.W.\\nWind has blown a gale all day\\n4\\n46\\n72\\n^8\\nS. E.\\nClear A. M., cloudy P. M.\\ns\\nS6\\n80\\n74\\nE.\\nKs in.\\nRain during night, clear all\\n6\\n52\\n6S\\n62\\nE.\\nCloudy. [day.\\n7\\n55\\n74\\n64\\nE.\\nClear.\\n3\\n62\\n80\\n70\\nW.\\n9\\n60\\n74\\n68\\nE.\\nlO\\n5S\\n36\\n72\\nw.\\nII\\n57\\n83\\n76\\nE.\\n12\\n62\\n82\\n74\\nw.\\n3\\n66\\n79\\n74\\nS.\\nClear. Wind blowing a gale.\\n14\\n72\\n80\\n75\\ns.\\nI in.\\nRain during night, cloudy all\\n15\\n6s\\n74\\n63\\nN.E.\\nClear. ^y\u00c2\u00bb\\n16\\n49\\n78\\n68\\nE.\\n17\\n58\\n82\\n76\\nE.\\n18\\n64\\n86\\n74\\nS.W.\\n19\\n6s\\n84\\n70\\nN.W.\\n20\\n63\\n85\\n72\\nE.\\n3-1\\n62\\n77\\n70\\nw.\\n22\\n67\\n76\\n66\\nw.\\n23\\n53\\n79\\n69\\nw.\\n24\\n56\\nbi\\n73\\nE.\\n25\\n60\\n80\\n7-2\\nS. E.\\n26\\n62\\n80\\n74\\nS.\\n27\\n58\\n88\\n74\\nN.E.\\n28\\n60\\n82\\n72\\nw.\\nf\\n29\\n68\\n87\\n74\\nS. E.\\nSums,\\n1.744\\n2,303\\n2,034\\niT^ill.\\nAv ge\\n60H\\n19%\\n7oj4\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A.M., 4th inst 46\u00c2\u00b0\\n.Highest 12 M., 27th inst 83 3", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Notes ffoin Sunland.\\n103\\nMETEOROLOGICAL,\\nRecord of the riurmoineter and Rainfall at Braidento^un,\\nFlorida, for the month of Afarch, 1880, zuith Remarks in\\nrelation to Wind and Weather.\\n^9\\n20\\n23\\n24\\n25\\n26\\n27\\n28\\n29\\n30\\n31\\n*i\\nDate,\\n?S\\no\\nVO\\nM\\nI\\n60\\n79\\n2\\n64\\n82\\n3\\n68\\n80\\n4\\n67\\n82\\n5\\n64\\nS-,\\n6\\n64\\n\u00c2\u00ab3\\n7\\n73\\na^\\n8\\n68\\n81\\n9\\n76\\n82\\n10\\n74\\n84 1\\nir\\n68\\n84\\n12\\n71\\n86\\nM\\n67\\n86\\n14\\n72\\n86\\n13\\n6\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\n85\\n16\\n70\\n84\\n17 1\\n70\\n84 1\\ni\\nZl 1\\n84 1\\n76\\n76\\n67\\n65\\n64\\n63\\n65\\n63\\n69 I\\n62 j\\n52\\n74\\n79\\n76\\n78\\n75\\n76\\n76\\n76\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n73\\n78\\ni 78\\n76\\n78\\n78\\n74\\n74\\n72\\n74\\n75\\n78\\n78\\n77\\n72\\n69\\n74\\n74\\nSums,! 2,093 2,530\\nAv gej 671^ I 8i.%\\n2,359\\n76/8\\nP5\\ns,\\nN.W.\\nS. W.\\nS.W.\\ns. w.\\nw.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\ns.\\nS.W.\\ns.\\ns.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nE.\\nH in.\\nE.\\nE.\\n15 in-\\nN. W.\\nE.\\nS.W.\\nW.\\nW.\\n16 in-\\nS. K.\\nE.\\n1\\n1\\n^/in-\\nRemarks.\\nClear.\\nCloudy.\\nClear.\\nRain during night, cloudy all\\nCloudy. [day.\\nRain during night, cloudy all\\nCloudy. [day.\\nClear.\\nRain A. M., cloudy P. W.\\nClear.\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A. M., 31st inst 52\\nHighest n M., 12th, 13th and 14th insts 86", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "iq4\\nNoics from SiiiiIaiuL\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nJiecord of the Thermometer and Rainfall at Braidentozvn^\\nFlorida, for the month of April, j88o, ivith Remarks in\\nrelation to Wind and Weather.\\nDate.\\nI o\\n37\\n18\\n20\\n24\\n25\\n26\\n27\\n28\\n-9\\nSums,\\nAv ge\\n6o\\n60\\n67\\n70\\n69\\n65\\n6S\\n68\\n70\\n59\\n65\\n65\\n58\\n62\\n65\\n68\\n70\\n75\\n74\\n76\\n73\\n69\\n72\\n73\\n73\\n72\\n73\\n76\\n74\\n76\\n2,065\\n685\\n81\\n79\\n82\\n80\\n81\\n83\\n82\\n82\\n77\\n76\\n79\\n78\\n77\\n83\\n84\\n85\\n85\\n86\\n86\\n86\\n75\\n76\\n75\\n76\\n76\\n79\\n78\\n69\\n68\\n75\\n76\\n75\\n80\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n79\\n81\\n85\\n82\\n81\\n7^\\nW.\\ns, w.\\ns. w.\\ns. w.\\ns. w.\\ns. w.\\ns. w.\\ns. w.\\nN. W\\nV^\\nRemarks.\\nClear.\\n8s\\n79\\n87\\n80\\n86\\n79\\n87\\n84\\n86\\n84\\n88\\n85\\n87\\n82\\n88\\n86\\n2,497\\n2,351\\n83^X\\n78^\\ns. w.\\nS. E.\\nS. W,\\nE.\\nN. W\\nN. W\\nW.\\ns. w.\\nw.\\nw.\\nw.\\ns. w.\\ns.w.\\ns. w.\\ns.w.\\ns.w.\\ns.w.\\ns.w.\\ns.w.\\ns.w.\\nCloudy, with\\nClear.\\nin the\\n[evening\\n\\\\Vx in.\\nT.owest temperature at 6 o clock A. M., 13th inst 5\\nHighest 12 M., 14th, 28th and 30th insts 88", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "Notes from Siiniand.\\nlo:\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Thervioineter and Rainfall at Braidentoxun,\\nFloriday for the month of May, jSSOy ivith Retnarks in\\nrelation to Wind and Weather,\\n(J\\nu\\nni\\nDate,\\nn\\nM\\nop,\\nRemarks\\nI\\n73\\n80\\n\u00c2\u00a36\\nE.\\nClear,\\n2\\n72\\n89\\n79\\nS. E.\\nVz in.\\nCloudy, t\\\\ ith rain T. M.\\n3\\n72\\n80\\n79\\nS. E.\\n\\\\vith Scotch mist.\\n4\\n78\\n84\\n84\\nS.W.\\nClear.\\n5\\n75\\n79\\n81\\nS. E.\\nCloudy, with Scotch mist.\\n6\\n74\\n83\\n83\\nE.\\nCloudy.\\n7\\n74\\n90\\n74\\nE.\\nI in.\\nRain during P.M. and night.\\n8\\n75\\n80\\n76\\nE.\\n2j in.\\nIt it It\\n9\\n76\\n85\\n78\\nE.\\nCloudy, with Scotch mist.\\nlO\\n74\\n87\\nS6\\nS.W.\\nPartly cloudy.\\nII\\n73\\n87\\n79\\nS.W.\\nI in.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\n12\\n75\\n78\\n78\\nS.W.\\niJ4 in.\\n13\\n72\\n83\\n83\\nS.W,\\nCloudy.\\n14\\n75\\n84\\n83\\nS.W.\\nft\\nJ5\\n75\\n83\\nSi\\nE.\\nCloudy; wind blowing a gale.\\ni6\\n72\\n85\\n79\\nE.\\ntt tt i\\n17\\n73\\n86\\n8o\\nE.\\nCloudy.\\n18\\n73\\n87\\n83\\nE.\\n19\\n73\\n93\\n84\\nE,\\n20\\n75\\n90\\n82\\nS. E.\\nj^ in.\\nRain during P.M. and night.\\n21\\n75\\n90\\n80\\nS. E.\\n1 in.\\nIt tt tt\\nr2\\n75\\n79\\n78\\nS. E.\\n2 in.\\nthe day.\\n3\\n78\\n86\\n78\\nS. E.\\nI in.\\n-4\\n78\\n86\\n78\\nS. E.\\ni/in.\\n25\\n76\\n75\\n78\\nS. E.\\nA in.\\n26\\n76\\n88\\n78\\nS. E.\\nCloudy, with Scotch mist.\\n27\\n75\\n89\\n86\\nS. E.\\nPartly cloudy.\\n28\\n76\\n89\\n89\\nS. E.\\n29\\n76\\n90\\n87\\nS. E.\\nii in.\\nRain during night, day clear\\n30\\n78\\n95\\n.87\\nS. E.\\nClear.-\\n31\\n8d\\n91\\n\u00c2\u00a36\\nS. E.\\ntt\\nSums,\\n2,319\\n2.657\\n2,523\\n11^ in\\nAv ge\\n74K\\n85-K\\n81 K\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A. M,, 2d, 3d, 13th and i6th insts.,.72\\nHighest ij M., 3cth inst 95\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "io6\\nJS/otes from Sunland.\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Thermometer and Rainfall at Braidentown,\\nFlorida, for the month of Jzine, 1880, with Remarks in\\nrelation to Wind and Weather.\\nDate.\\nIs\\n5\\nRemarJ s.\\nPi\\nI\\n80\\n88\\n84\\nS. E.\\nV2 in.\\nCloudy.\\n2\\n82\\n82\\n81\\nS. E.\\nV2 in.\\n3\\n80\\n87\\n85\\nw.\\nVi in.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\n4\\n73\\n91\\n85\\nS. E.\\nCloudy, with Scotch mist.\\n5\\n80\\n89\\n82\\nS. E.\\ni^in.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\n6\\n81\\n87\\n80\\nS. E.\\nV2 in.\\n7\\n79\\n90\\n85\\ns. w.\\nClear,\\n8\\n80\\n89\\n87\\nS. W.\\n9\\n82\\n9^\\n90\\ns. w.\\nI in.\\nRain in evening.\\n10\\n78\\n92\\n78\\ns. w.\\n1 in.\\nafternoon.\\nII\\n80\\n90\\n78\\ns. \\\\v.\\nM in.\\n12\\n79\\n92\\n88\\ns. w.\\nClear,\\n13\\n82\\n90\\n88\\ns. w.\\n1\\n14\\n84\\n91\\n87\\nw.\\n1\\n15\\n86\\n92\\n88\\nw.\\n16\\n85\\n91\\n87\\nw.\\n17\\n79\\n89\\n88\\ns. w.\\n1 in. Rain A. M., clear P. M.\\n18\\n80\\n88\\n88\\ns. w.\\n1 Clear.\\n19\\n77\\n79\\n83\\ns. w.\\n1/ in, I Rain A. M., clear P. M.\\n20\\n80\\n80\\n76\\nE.\\n1 Cloudy.\\n21\\n76\\n80\\n78\\ns. w.\\nV% in. 1\\n22\\n74\\n88\\n80\\nS. E.\\nK in.\\nRain P. M. and at night.\\n23\\n78\\n87\\n84\\ns.\\nI in,\\nRain during night.\\n24\\n78\\n90\\n84\\nS. E.\\nCloudy.\\n25\\n78\\n87\\n86\\nS.\\nI g in. 1 Rain during afteri::oon.\\n26\\n80\\n92\\n86\\nS. E.\\nShower during afternoon.\\n27\\n86\\n91\\n84\\nS. W,\\nLight shower in afternoon.\\n28\\n82\\n88\\n89\\nS. W.\\nVa in. j\\nli ii\\n29\\n81\\n86\\n86\\nS. W.\\n/-r 1\\n30\\nS3\\n94\\n2.657\\n86\\n2,531\\nS. W.\\n1\\nc a\\nSums,\\n2,408\\n1\\n8% in.\\nAv ge\\n80K\\n88 14\\nWA\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A. AL, 22d inst 74\u00c2\u00b0\\nHighest 12 M., 30th inst 94\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Notes from Siniland.\\nloy\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Thermo?7ieier attd Rainfall at Braidentown,\\nFlorida, for the month of July, iSSo, with Remarks in\\nrelation to Wind and Weather.\\nDate.\\n3\\n4\\n5\\n6\\n7\\n8\\n9\\nlO\\n13\\n14\\n15\\ni6\\n17\\n18\\n19\\n20\\n23\\n24\\n25\\n26\\n27\\n28\\n29\\n30\\n31\\no J\\n82\\n82\\n84\\n84\\n84\\n84\\n81\\n82\\n86\\n82\\n83\\n86\\n82\\n88\\n86\\n84\\n86\\n88\\n83\\n88\\n84\\n84\\n84\\n80\\n80\\n80\\n83\\n82\\n80\\n96\\n92\\n91\\n91\\n93\\n92\\n79\\n93\\n85\\n92\\n89\\n84\\n93\\n90\\n92\\n90\\n89\\n93\\n90\\n91\\n93\\n90\\n92\\n9Z\\n94\\n80\\n80\\n87\\n90\\n90\\n84\\nSums, I 2,593 2,778\\nAVgei 833^ I 891^\\nI i\\n.5S\\nRemarks.\\n82\\n87\\n90\\n84\\n91\\n83\\n84\\n89\\n82\\n86\\n87\\n90\\n88\\n90\\n37\\n82\\n83\\n83\\n83\\n87\\n85\\n83\\n2,683\\n86)^\\nS, W.\\nS. W.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nS.W,\\nS.W.\\nS.E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nS. W.\\nS.W.I\\nS.W.I\\nS.W\\nS.W.\\nS. E.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\ns. w.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nS. E.\\nS.E.\\nS.E.\\nS.E.\\nS.W.\\nS.W\\nS. W\\n^in.\\nij^ in.\\nI in.\\n3^ in.\\n7^ in.\\nRain during the afternoon.\\nClear.\\nCloudy.\\nClear.\\nScotch mist in the afternoon.\\nRain during P, M.\\nClear.\\nCloudy, with Scotch mist.\\nCloudy.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\nCloudy.\\nClear.\\nCloudy; rain in the evening.\\nCloudy.\\nCloudy rain in the evening.\\nScotch mist in the afternoon.\\nRain in the evening.\\nafternoon.\\nCloudy and misty.\\nClear.\\nRain at noon.\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A.M., 26th, 27th, 28th and 31st insts 8o\u00c2\u00ab\\nHighest 12 M.. istinst pgo", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "io8\\nNotes from Sunland.\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Thermometer and Rainfall at Braidentozvn.\\nFlorida Jor the month of August, iS8o, u^ith Remarks tn\\nrelation to Wind arid Weather.\\nDate.\\na\\n(J\\no\\n-nS\\no\\nfi\\nvO\\n82\\n9\u00c2\u00bb\\n82\\n91\\n82\\n90\\n13\\n14\\n15\\n16\\n17\\n18\\n19\\n=3\\n24\\n25\\n26\\n27\\n28\\n29\\n30\\n31\\n78\\n78\\n79\\n82\\n82\\n81\\n82\\n84\\n82\\n81\\n82\\n8o\\n82\\n8d\\n78\\n82\\n8o\\n84\\n86\\n84\\n82\\n81\\n82\\n82\\n84\\n78\\n8r-\\n82\\n80\\n83\\n91\\n94\\n94\\n90\\n91\\n93\\n93\\n95\\n91\\n93\\n89\\n89\\nQ2\\n06\\n93\\n96\\n94\\n95\\n84\\n83\\n8o\\n79\\n82\\n82\\n80\\n84\\n83\\n88\\n80\\n84\\n87\\n92\\n79\\n84\\n8--.\\n86\\n00\\n86\\n89\\n89\\n90\\n88\\n85\\nS. W.\\nS. E.\\nS. W.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. W.\\nS. W.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. W.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\ns. w.\\ns. w.\\ns. w.\\nS. E.\\nS. W.\\n1 S. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. W.\\nS.\\nS. E.\\nRemarks.\\nin.\\nii/ in,\\niYt. in,\\ntV\\nV^ in.\\nI in.\\ni^ in.\\nVi in.\\nClear.\\nRain during nigkt.\\nclay and night.\\nforenoon.\\nafternoon.\\nCloudy.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\nCloudy.\\niTiVi Rain in the afternoon.\\nCloudy.\\n2 ill. Rain in the afternoon.\\nI Cloudy.\\n1 Clear. t, at\\n5 in. i Cloudy, ram in the P. M.\\nI Clear.\\n^5 in. I Cloudy, with rain in the P.M.\\nKin-\\n1 in.\\nClear.\\nI [and night.\\nis i^ in. Rain, wind blowing gale day\\n1 3 in- r\\nU^ in. Rain during the forenoon.\\nSums,! 2,520\\nAv ge I 84 93-/i\\nLowest temperature at\\nHighest\\n6 o clock A. M., 4th, 5th, 6th, 19th and sothinsts\\n78^\\n2 M., 23d and 26th insts 9^\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "Notes from Simland.\\n109\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Thentioineter and Rainfall at Brai dent own\\nFlorida, foi- the vtonth of September^ iSSo, 7C ith Remarks\\nin relation to Wi7id and Weather.\\nDate.\\n9\\n10\\n14\\n15\\n16\\n17\\n18\\n19\\n20\\n23\\n24\\n27\\n28\\n=9\\n30\\nSums,\\nAv se\\n81\\n78\\n78\\n80\\n82\\n81\\n81\\n80\\n82\\n82\\n80\\n82\\n80\\n78\\n75\\n73\\n75\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n78\\n77\\n80\\n78\\n80\\n85\\n79\\n1^\\n2,377\\n79K\\n86\\n88\\n92\\n92\\n92\\n90\\n88\\n90\\n92\\n94\\n92\\n94\\n92\\n90\\n91\\n77\\n87\\n85\\n90\\n90\\n93\\n92\\n94\\n94\\n90\\n92\\n87\\n90\\n88\\n90\\n2,702\\n90\\nrt\\n0^\\nVO\\nr^\\n82\\n78\\n81\\n88\\n87\\n87\\n85\\n84\\n86\\n87\\n88\\n87\\n90\\n88\\n88\\n87\\n89\\n90\\n85\\n87\\n86\\n86\\n84\\n87\\nS. E.\\nS.W.\\ns.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\ns. w.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS.W.\\nI s.\\nS. E.\\nis. E.\\nis. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS.\\nS.W.\\nS.W.\\nN.W.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\n2,562 I\\nRemarks.\\nX\\nli in.\\nI in.\\nI in.\\nVi in.\\ny% in.\\nI in.\\nJ^in.\\n^/in.\\nCloudy, with rain in P. M.\\nClear.\\nClear A. M., cloudy P. M.\\nClear.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\nit it ti\\nCloudy.\\nR^n in the afternoon.\\nClear day, rain during night.\\nClear.\\nClear day, rain during night.\\nCloudy, with Scotch mist.\\nClear.\\nCloudy, with strong wind.\\nClear A. M., rain P. M.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\nClear.\\nI [night.\\nin. Rain during early part of\\nI in. I Rain in the morning.\\nI Clear.\\nI\\n7/^ in.\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A. M., 30th inst 70\\nHighest 12 M., loth, i2th, 23dand24thinsts...94", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "no\\nNotes from Sun land.\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nKecord of the Ther77iometer and Rainfall at Braidentown,\\nFlorida, for the month of October, iSSo, -with Remarks in\\nrelation to Wind and Weather.\\nrt\\n_.\\nDate.\\n(J\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2g^\\nRemarks.\\n^0\\nI\\nI\\n73\\n92\\n87\\nS. E.\\nClear.\\n2\\n70\\n90\\n85\\nS. E.\\n3\\n76\\n92\\n87\\nS. E.\\n4\\n76\\n92\\n85\\nS. E.\\n77\\n86\\n81\\nS. E.\\nHin.\\nCloudy, with rain.\\n6\\n76\\n80\\n80\\nS. E.\\ny in.\\n7\\n78\\n80\\n78\\nS. E.\\n3 in.\\nCloudy, with heavy rain.\\n8\\n82\\n86\\n8s\\nS. w.\\n2 in.\\nClear A. M., rain P. U.\\n9\\n80\\n82\\n79\\nS. E.\\nCloudy.\\nlO\\n76\\n90\\n87\\nS.\\nClear.\\nII\\n78\\n90\\n86\\nE.\\n12\\n78\\n88\\n82\\nE.\\n13\\n70\\n88\\n88\\nE.\\n14\\n76\\n93\\n82\\nE.\\n15\\n70\\n87\\n82\\nE.\\n16\\n68\\n87\\n80\\nE.\\ni\\n17\\n72\\n8s\\n77\\nS.\\n*/2 HI.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\n18\\n66\\n79\\n75\\nE.\\nClear.\\n19\\n6q\\n84\\nbi\\nN. E.\\n20\\n75\\n86\\n80\\nS. E.\\nH in.\\nRain in the morning.\\n21\\n70\\n87\\n82\\nS. E.\\nI in.\\nduring the night.\\n22\\n78\\n82\\n76\\nN. W.\\nVz in.\\nin the morning.\\n23\\n68\\n78\\n73\\nN. W.\\nClear.\\n24\\n62\\nSo\\n76\\nS. E.\\n25\\n6o\\n79\\n80\\nE.\\n26\\n62\\n82\\n80\\nS. E.\\n27\\n68\\n86\\n81\\nS. E.\\n28\\n74\\n72\\n74\\nS. E.\\ni^in.\\nCloudy, with heavy rain.\\n29\\n70\\n80\\n79\\nN. W.\\nin.\\nrain.\\n30\\n75\\n80\\n76\\nN. W.\\nCloudy\\n51\\n72\\ni 82\\n78\\ns. w.\\nClear.\\nSums,\\nAv ge\\n2,245\\n72 4\\n2,625\\n845i\\n2,502\\n805^\\noYa in.\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A. M., 25th inst 60\u00c2\u00b0\\nHighest J2 M., 14th inst 93\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland.\\nIll\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Therijiofueter and Rainfall at Braidentown,\\nFlorida, for the month of November, iS8o, with Remarks\\nin relation to Wind and Weather.\\nJ^\\n(J\\nDate.\\nIs\\n1\\nc\\nRemarks.^\\nI\\n1\\n68\\n86\\n79\\nS.E.\\nCloudyA. M.,Clear P.\\nM.\\n2\\ni 63\\n82\\n78\\nN.W.\\nClearA.M., Cloudy P.\\nM.\\n3\\n68\\n83\\n78\\nS.W.\\nClear.\\n4\\n70\\n80\\n80\\nN.E.\\nj^ in.\\nRain during the night.\\n5\\n78\\n86\\n82\\nS.\\nClear,\\n6\\n77\\n86\\n81\\nS.\\n7\\n74\\n75\\n76\\nN.\\nCloudy.\\n8\\n70\\n80\\n77\\nS. E.\\n9\\n72\\n90\\n85\\nE.\\nClear.\\nlO\\n77\\n85\\n78\\nS.\\nCloudy.\\nII\\n70\\n84\\n78\\nS. E.\\nClear.\\n12\\n70\\n82\\n82\\nE.\\n13\\n7-5\\n87\\n86\\nS.E.\\n14\\n74\\n83\\n80\\nS.\\nii in.\\nClear day, rain at night.\\n15\\n70\\n70\\n66\\nN.E.\\nCloudy.\\n16\\n50\\n72\\n71\\nS. E.\\nClear.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a07\\n6o\\n75\\n73\\nw.\\n18\\n64\\n80\\n76\\nw.\\nCloudy.\\n9\\n70\\n78\\n79\\nE.\\n20\\n77\\n75\\n72\\nN.E,\\nVn.\\nRain in the forenoon.\\n21\\n62\\n76\\n77\\nE.\\nClear A. M., Cloudy P.\\nM.\\n22\\n68\\n84 1\\n76\\nE.\\nII II 11\\n23\\n63\\n76\\n67\\nN.E.\\nCloudy.\\n24\\n65\\n79\\n79\\nS.E.\\n25\\n71\\n80 1\\n74\\nN.W.\\nand foggy.\\n26\\n71\\n75\\n75\\nS. E.\\n27\\n72\\n80\\n76\\nS.E.\\nClear.\\n28\\n71\\n84 1\\n78\\nS.\\n29\\n71\\n84\\n84\\nS, E.\\nS\\n70 i\\ni\\n86\\n78\\nS. E.\\nSums.\\nI\\n2,081 1\\n2,412\\n2,321\\nii^in.\\nAv ge\\n69H\\n80H\\n77 1\\nLowest\\ntempe\\nrature a\\nt 6 o cl\\nock A. M.. i6th jnst\\n.50\u00c2\u00b0\\nHighcs\\nt\\n12\\nM\\nQth ii\\n1st\\n00\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "112\\nNotes from Stuiland.\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Thermometer and Rainfall at Braideniown,\\nFiprida, for the -month of December, 1880, ivith Retnarks\\nin relation to Wind and Weather,\\nDate,\\n13\\n14\\n17\\n18\\n23\\n24\\n27\\n28\\n29\\n30\\nSums,\\nAv ge\\n71\\n76\\n72\\n69\\n70\\n76\\n56\\n45\\n52\\n52\\n45\\n50\\n50\\n58\\n6d\\n65\\n66\\n70\\n70\\n70\\n58\\n42\\n46\\n58\\n62\\n52\\n52\\n43\\n54\\n40\\n33\\n^iVx\\n80\\n77\\n68\\n72\\n73\\n69\\n72\\n75\\n79\\n78\\n78\\n77\\n81\\n60\\n56\\n71\\n71\\n69\\n66\\n63\\n65\\n71\\n51\\n50\\no\\n2,237\\n74^\\n80\\n84\\n82\\n80\\n78\\n73\\n65\\n64\\n72\\n68\\n69\\n72\\n75\\n70\\n73\\n75\\n75\\n74\\n70\\n6S\\n55\\n54\\n68\\n67\\n68\\n58\\n6o\\n65\\n60\\n45\\n53\\nS.\\nw,\\ns. w.\\ns,\\ns.\\ns. w.\\nN. E.\\nE.\\nN. E.\\nN, E.\\nN, E,\\nN. E.\\nN. W,\\nS. E.\\nS.\\ns.\\ns.\\ns. w.\\ns.\\nN. W.\\nN. W.\\nN. E.\\nS. E.\\ns.w.\\ns.\\nN. E.\\nN.W.\\nS. E.\\nS, E. I Vg in\\nN.W.I\\nN. E. I in.\\nRemarks,\\nCloudy,\\nif\\nClear.\\nCloudy, with rain.\\nClear.\\niin.\\nVi in.\\nH in-\\n2,117 la^in-\\n68^ i\\nRain morning and afternoon.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\nCloudy.\\nClear.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\nCloudy.\\nClear.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\nCloudy. [of the year.\\nDrizzling rain. Coldest day\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A. M., 31st inst.,\\nHighest 12 M., 2d inst\\n.38\u00c2\u00b0\\n.84", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "Notes from S,Hnland.\\n113\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Thermometer and Rainfall at Braidentown,\\nFlorida, for the month of January, 188 1, with Remarks\\nin relation to Wind and Weather.\\nDate. o\\nI\\n54\\n78\\n2\\n50\\n67\\n3\\n46\\n74\\n4\\n69\\n80\\n5\\n74\\n79\\n6\\n66\\n68\\n7\\n63\\n67\\n8\\n65\\n68\\n9\\n66\\n75\\n10\\n73\\n80\\nII\\n68\\n76\\n12\\n54\\n62\\n13\\n48\\n78\\n14\\n64\\n75\\n15\\n68\\n77\\n16\\n66\\n82\\n17\\n64\\n83\\n18\\n66\\n87\\n19\\n20\\n23\\n24\\n25\\n26\\n27\\n28\\n29\\n30\\n31\\n66\\n66\\n66\\n60\\n57\\n53\\n52\\n44\\n48\\n54\\n56\\n60\\n55\\n83\\n77\\n75\\n76\\n60\\n60\\n55\\n76\\n72\\n67\\n80\\n78\\n78\\nSums.\\nAv ge\\n59\\n63\\n70\\n77\\n71\\n66\\n67\\n69\\n72\\n75\\n65\\n62\\n75\\n70\\n70\\n76\\n80\\n79\\n78\\n72\\n70\\n66\\n58\\n56\\n52\\n64\\n62\\n64\\n74\\n76\\n74\\nRemarks.\\nS.\\nE. 1\\nE. I\\nS. i\\ns.\\nE.\\nE.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS.\\nN.W.\\nE.\\nE.\\nS.\\nw.\\ns. w.\\nS. E.\\nE.\\nS. E.\\nS.\\ns. w.\\nS. E.\\nN.E.\\nN.W.\\nN.E.\\nN.E.\\nN. E.\\nN. E.\\nE.\\nN.W.\\nN.W.\\ni^ in. Rain during the afternoon.\\nI Clear.\\nI in. Rain nearly all day.\\ny% in. I Rain in the afternoon.\\nI in. Rain morning and afternoon.\\ny^ in. Rain in the afternoon\\nCloudy.\\nin. Rain during the night.\\nJ^in. afternoon.\\nCloudy.\\nj Clear.\\nCloudy.\\ny^ in. I Rain in the afternoon.\\nClear.\\nCloudy, with Scotch mist.\\nClear A. M, cloudy P. M.\\nClear.\\nl;^ in. i Rain P. M. and night.\\nk in. j\\nCloudy.\\nClear.\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A. M., 26th inst 44\u00c2\u00b0\\nHighest 12 M., 17th and 19th insts 83\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "114\\nNotes from Sunland.\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of th:: Thermometer and Rainfall at Braidentown,\\nFlorida, for the ffionth of February, 1881, with Remarks\\nin relation to Wind and Weather.\\nDate.\\n3.%\\nN\\nH\\nit\\nofl(\\nNO\\n4-\u00c2\u00bb\\nRainfall.\\nRemarks.\\nI\\n2\\n3\\n4\\n5\\n6\\n7\\n8\\n9\\n10\\nII\\n12\\n13\\n14\\n15\\n16\\n17\\n18\\n19\\n20\\n21\\n22\\n23\\n24\\n25\\n26\\n27\\n28\\n56\\n65\\n54\\n50\\n52\\n62\\n66\\n64\\n68\\n65\\n70\\n64\\n66\\n48\\n52\\n58\\n59\\n62\\n65\\n60\\n58\\n58\\n60\\n60\\n65\\n69\\n76\\n71\\n70\\n65\\n75\\n75\\n78\\n79\\n84\\n81\\n72\\n69\\n66\\nP\\n80\\n84\\n85\\n82\\n81\\n76\\n80\\n80\\n80\\nZ9\\n84\\n79\\n76\\n72\\n70\\n67\\n62\\n69\\n72\\n73\\n70\\n78\\n64\\n59\\n62\\n66\\n76\\n76\\n74\\n74\\n69\\n66\\n73\\n74\\n74\\n77\\neg\\n6 J\\nS. E.\\nS. W.\\nS. W.\\nS. E.\\nN. E.\\nN. E.\\nN E.\\nE.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS.\\ns. w.\\nw.\\nN.W.\\nN.W.\\nN. E.\\nS. E.\\nS. E.\\nS.E.\\ns. w.\\nN.W.\\ns. w.\\nS. E.\\nN. E.\\nE.\\nS. E.\\ns.\\nw.\\ny in.\\n/s ln.\\n2 in.\\nClear.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\nClear.\\nCloudy.\\nClear.\\nClear, wind blowing a gale.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\nClear.\\nRain in the afternoon.\\nClear.\\n(I\\nCloudy.\\nClear. [S^le.\\nRain, with wind blowing a\\nClear,\\nSums,\\nAv ge\\n1,712\\n61%\\n2,054\\n73%\\n1.970\\n70M\\n2j^ in.\\nLowest temperature at 6 o clock A. M., 14th inst 48\\nHighest 12 M., i8th inst 85", "height": "3045", "width": "1810", "jp2-path": "florida00upha_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "Notes from Sunland.\\n115\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nRecord of the Thermomeier and Rainfall at Braidentown,\\nFlorida, for the month of March, 1881, with Remarks in\\nrelation to Wind and Weather.\\nDate.\\ni 3\\nI\\nRemarks.\\nVO\\nVO\\nPi\\nI\\n59\\n74\\n61\\nN. 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