150 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SUREY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT

withstanding the poor soil, a large part of the population gets its living from the water, as is the case on most coasts all over the world. The winter tourist business is a very important item here too, and what farming there is is very intensive, as will be shown presently.
 About one-third of the population would be classed as urban by the United States census definition, but about two-thirds of the people live in incorporated places, the.largest of which in 1915 were Daytona, with 4,250 inhabitants; New Smyrna, with 2,012 ; Titusville, 1,310; Ormond, 857; Cocoa, 807; Daytona Beach, 582, Eau Gallie, 543; Seabreeze, 443; Melbourne, 408; Holly Hill, 378; Port Orange, 296; and Hawks Park, 178. All of these are on the main line of the Florida East Coast Railway, or on the barrier beach east of it. (Stations on that railroad in central Florida, average about 3> miles apart.) They are all popular winter resorts, and their combine d hotel capacity, according to the latest estimates, is cver 6,ooo.
 The composition of the population may be deduced approximately from the figures for Brevard County, although that contains less than half the total. In 1910 that county had 65-5% of native whites, 4.7% foreign whites, and 29.7% negroes. If similar figures for the eastern half of Volusia were available the proportion of foreigners (already the highest in central Florida outside of Hillsborough County) and of negroes would doulbtless be increased. In the incorporated places above listed 37% of the population in the summer of 1915 was colored, and Daytona and Ormond had more negroes than whites. The leading foreign nationalities in Brevard County in 1910 were English, German, Danish, Canmdiau. Irish. Italian, Scotch, and Swedish, and in Brevard and Vohsia together -English, German, Canadian, Swedish, Italian, frish. Scotch, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, and Swiss. Some of the native whites are descendants of Minorcans brought from the Balearic Islands by Dr. Turnbull in the latter part of the 18th century.
 On account of the dense population, mostly living in towns. and the fact that a large proportion of the people (not ascertainable for any census since 1880, however) have come from other states and therefore almost necessarily learned to read before making the journey, the illiteracy percentages are low. Among the persons