CHAPTER I.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.


 FLORIDA! What kind of a place is it? How does it
look? What does it produce? What are the conditions
of success there? How do the people live? How do they
like it? These are a few of the multitude of questions
that are eagerly showered upon a resident of this sunny,
genial clime, when visiting the less favored regions of our
country.
 Those who ask them commonly suppose that they can
be answered as compendiously and precisely as the some-
what similar questions in a geographical text-book; but,


unfortunately, this
comprising the pre
swer them in fulL
,answering these an
the following book
it, the reader will
demands upon his
accomplishment of
response to the firs


is not possible, and the numerous pages
sent volume are none too many to an-
 In fact, it is for the sole purpose -of
d similar inquiries that I have written
; and I trust that, when he has finished


acquit me of
attention that
this object.
t question, that


having
Swas
I migh
it is a


made
neces
t say
delig


to the second, that it looks like a region
breathed upon by airs from Araby the blest;
other, that it produces nearly everything, with


any larger
sary th the
,indeed, in
htful place;
perpetually
and to the
less expen-