A Concise Natural History Of East And West Florida (1775) - hardcover

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OOOXXXXXXXXX: XXXX XX XXX XXXXXXXXXXxXXXXX)OX XX CXX A CONCISE NATURAL HISTORY O F Eaft and Weft-Florida. ADESCRIBER of countries, ought in a great meafure, to imitate a building Engineer, in firft laying before thofe, whom he will employ, accurate and di- ftincT: plans of his intended work, thereby enabling them to judge more diftinctly of the execution thereof. I think that in a work of this nature, i could not do this better that by directing my readers to the charts Or plans accompanying it, in which they will undoubtedly find materials to form juft ideas of the places herein defcribed. To reduce my work to fome regularity, i fhall proceed from the Eaft, Weftward, and begin with the Peninfula, dividing it into two parts, which i will call climates, the one beginning at Amelia or St. Mary's inlet, in latitude 31: and extending Southward to the latitude of 27: 40: this will include the rivers St. Mary, Naflau, St, John's or YlaccOi and the Mufketo Lagoon (for furely no one can call this laft a river) befides feveral final - ler ones, which will be mentioned in their places v A thefe chapter{Section 4tnefe all empty themfelves on the Eaftern fide of -the Apalachicola (the boundary between the two Floridas) the Ofkaulafkna the Apalachian, St. Juan de Guacaro, vulgarly called little Seguana, the river Arnaxura, and the Manatee, which laft falls into the bay .of Tampe, or harbour of Spirito Santo, and which i have firft difcovered. The other, or Southern climate, beginning at the latitude 27: 40: and extending Southward to the latitude of 25, on the main, or to 24: 17: including the keys; this contains a large river, 'which empties itfelf into the new harbour, of which i am the firft explorer, we have given it the name of Charlotte harbour, but neither harbo...