GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 101

scarce, and Leguminosae (leguminous plants) seem to be more abundant here than in most other parts of central Florida, which indicates that the soil is not as poor as it might look to a new-comer who had spent most of his life in clayey regions.
 The long-leaf pine is, and doubtless will long continue to be, an important son-rce of lumber, fuel,and naval stores. Near some of the phosphate mines it ha been cut off pretty completely to furnish heat for drying the phosphate rock,,leaving a very desolate-looking country, but it comes back as fast as it is allowed to, without any assistance. The wire-grass and other herbage of the pine lands afford an abundance of free pasturage for cattle.
 Population. This region does not cover enough of any one counn to enable us to estimate the density of population very accurately. but there are probably at least thirty inhabitants per square mile. It includes most of the settlements in Levy and Citrus Counties, from the statistics of which we can approximate the composition and some other characteristics of the population.
 These two counties have no places with over 2,500 inhabitants, and therefore no population classed as urban by the U. S. census, but 8.7% of the people were living in the three incorporated towns in 1915. The largest towns in the region at that time were Tarpon Springs, with 1938 inhabitants, Clearwater, with 1932, Inverness, with about 1000 (but not returned separately from the precinct including the town), Dunnellon 979, Williston 8oo, Dunedin 429, Anthony 406, and Wildwood 385. (The 1920 census puts Clearwater ahead of Tarpon Springs, but returns for the smaller places have not been published yet).
 In Levy and Citrus Counties in 1910 about 50.1 % of the inhabitants were native white, i% foreign white, and 49% negro. At the same time 5.9% of the native whites, 14.8% of the foreign whites, and 30% of the negroes were illiterate. The. illiteracy percentage for foreign whites is considerably higher than it usually is in prinarily agricultural regions, and probably indicates a considerable number of foreign-born unskilled laborers employed in the phosphate mines. The foreigners came mostly from Italy, Greece, England, Germany, Canada and Sweden: but of course there is no telling how many of them are fishermen and spongers, living on the coast of these two counties, and therefore entirely outside of the lime-sink region. There is a large colony of Greeks, supported