FLORIDA.


Cotton was
plantations
the charm
great crops
other bale,
the current
the days of
gion with


King, and the broad rolling acres of the vast
that covered the hills and beautiful valleys of


ng
of
an
sayj
f its
the


largest yields
sea-island varie
 We left Ja
ida Central Ra
seat of Suwan
and Mobile R2
speeding throu
certainly, it wa


region were everywhere white v
the snowy staple. Every acre
I every bale meant another nig
ing in regard to it. This was alw
Transfer to American rule, a fa
cotton-planters; here were obt
per acre, of the best quality (ti
ty), and the earliest in market.
cksonville late one afternoon, by
ilroad, changing at Live Oak (th
ee County) to the Jacksonville,
railroad. The early morning hours


gh Ohio, Wisconsi
as not Florida in


a rich, brown, clayey soil,
grass, just like the North
noon we arrived at Quinc
County, and took the stag
one and a half mile distant
over hills and through fine


solid r
ern Sti
y, the
e from


ith their
meant an-
ger," was
rays, from
vorite re-
ained the
ie famous

the Flor-
e county,
Pensacola
found us


n, or central New York;
appearance-hilly, with
oads, rocks, and fields of
rates. Early in the fore-
county-seat of Gadsden
 the depot to the town,


by a road which winds prettily
forests.


 Quincy is a quaint, old-fashioned town, Southern in
appearance (not, however, of the dingy, miserable, "crack-
er" style), a representative type of once-flourishing in-
dustry. It has a large, park-like, well-fenced square, with
the court-house standing in the center, one of the old
Southern regulation kind of square four-roomed-on-two-
floors buildings. Huge oaks and similar trees shade the
park, and around it or adjacent to it are the city build-
ings, jail, etc., with plain and rather faded brick stores, the
usual number of offices, pumps and water-trough, and the
universal Southern hitching-rail on high posts, with al-
ways a number of saddle mules and horses attached. Over
all is an impalpable but unmistakable mantle of mildewy