FLORIDA.


The water is so marvelously


look pale in comparison wi
gravel and bits of tin one
plainly on the bottom. C(
and some very small, could
about in the distant depths.
rocks are of the most inten:
occasional phosphorescent fl
fitfully, producing a weird
is neither a ripple nor a m
vet here is a stream that co


blue that indigo would


ith it, and so clear that small
inch square could all be seen
unless fish, some quite large
d also be seen lazily floating
 While the water is blue, the
sely brilliant green, over which
ashes of shimmering light play
and phantasmal effect. There
otion observable in the water,
mes pouring up from the bow-


earth and forms a river (t
wide and four feet deep.
the spring that Ponce de
r and discoverer, romantically


the long-sought


"Fountain of Youth."


stitious soldiers seem to have
their interpreters or the Indian
convey the information that i
healthy water, that had a benefit
therein. He and his followers
now stands, sought out the W
it up to this spring, into whi
It need hardly be said that the
younger; and the lives of ma
at once sacrificed to appease
They found, or could see on


a


complex
,who
t was
ial effe
, being
kulla


ich the'
y came


1e Wakulla River)

Leon, the Spanish
ly supposed to be
He and his super-
tely misunderstood
probably meant to
a spring of clear,
ct upon the bather
where St. Mark's
tiver and followed
y eagerly plunged.
out cleaner, but no


ny innocent savages were
their disappointed anger.
 the distant bottom, the


skeletons of two gigantic mastodons, their flesh all gone,
but their bare bones perfect and white, their great curl-
ing tusks interlocked, evidently fallen in and drowned
while engaged in a terrific combat on the brink. There
the bones lay until, in 1835, Professor King, of Phila-
delphia, engaged several men, some of whom are now
living in Tallahassee, to recover them. This was success-
fully accomplished, and they were shipped on board a


els of the
sixty feet
 This is
adventurer


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