A TRIP


THROUGH NORTH FLORIDA.


Among them are many descendants of the most promi-
nent and aristocratic old families of America, with names
that recall old colonial, Revolutionary, and 1812 days in
the battle-fields and in State councils; and their large,
well-attended schools, numerous, handsome churches, beau-
tiful homes and surroundings, all attest to the high stand-
ard of the bept society of Tallahassee.
 From Tallahassee to Jacksonville the traveler passes


over the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile to
Oak, and thence via the Savannah, Florida and V
ern Railroad. The other important towns in this sec
besides those mentioned, may be briefly dealt with.
 Monticello, in Jefferson County, thirty-three miles
of Tallahassee. is the terminus of a branch railroad a


five miles long, and
thousand inhabitants.
a weekly newspaper,
nations, Episcopalian
tist. The climate is


Live
Test-
tion,

east
bout


is a flourishing town of some two
 It contains two hotels, good schools,
and churches of the several denomi-
, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Bap-
almost identical with that of Talla-


hassee, and the adjacent country is very similar in appear-
ance to that which surrounds the capital. Near Monticello
is the Lipona plantation, where Murat resided for some
time while in Florida; and in the vicinity is Lake Mic-


cosukee, whose banks figure
ground of De Soto, and as t
between General Jackson and
 Madison is a pretty town
habitants, situated on the rai
Tallahassee. It is the capital
on a plain near a small lake
Baptist, and Methodist church
near by, and in the county


I
'1


in history as the camping-
he scene of a bloody battle
;he Miccosukee Indians.
of about eight hundred in-
way, fifty-five miles east of
of Madison County, is built
and contains Presbyterian,


hes.
are


The Suwanee River is.
Lakes Rachel, Francis,


Mary, and Cherry.
 Live Oak, the county-seat of Suwanee County, is at
the junction of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile