A TRIP THROUGH NORTH FLORIDA.


schooner, to
but, unfortui
off Cape Ha
finally lost fo
 Returning
our party v
spring, and
terious "sini
These sinks
in diameter
with smooth
or have but


be placed
lately, the
itteras, and
ir ever.


Sho
isite<
also
ks"
are


in the museum in Philadelphia,
vessel was lost at sea, in a gale
these interesting skeletons were


me from our visit to this
d another. smaller but
examined a number of
that are found in that
mostly circular in form,


and fifty to one hundred
,sides, like great wells,
little water in their deep


an
onl
bot


romantic spring,
very interesting
the many mys-
Wakulla region.
about fifty feet
d fifty feet deep,
ly they are dry,
toms, while large


lakes or rivers may be but a few hundred feet di
with their waters nearly level with the surface o
ground. The wonder is, how there can be such
ference between the levels of the waters in the lak
in the sink; how the water of the lake fails to ge
the sink, and where the waters of the sink come
and go to. These sinks are found in all portions of
ida, and are a remarkable and characteristic feature
peninsula.
 In Wakulla County is a vast jungle of trees,
water, and marsh, that has never yet been fully exi
Neither the United States nor the State Governmel


ever attempted to survey it (in fac
a geological survey of this State).
gentlemen in Tallahassee have, on
tempted to penetrate its depths, b
except at much expense. As far a
found a strange country of volcano
where were seen great masses of
extent, all cracked and ragged
great depth. Traces of gold, lead,
are said to have been discovered


instant,
,f the
a dif-
;e and
t into
from
Flor-
of the


vines,
)lored.
nt has


t, there has never been
 Several adventurous
 Various occasions, at-
ut found it impossible
Ls they penetrated, they
iic appearance. Every-
rocks, often an acre in
as if upheaved from a
copper, silver, and iron
: and abundant traces


of petroleum are found there, and in numerous other lo-