FLORIDA.


and the Savannah, Florida and Western Railways, and is
the half-way point between Tallahassee and Jacksonville.
The surrounding country is pine-woods with sandy soil,
which looks poor, but which, with a little manure and
good cultivation, produces excellent crops. There are a
number of market-gardens in the vicinity, and great quan-


titles of vegetables are


ern markets.
ground, and c
A live weekly
here, the scho
several denomi


ings and a
south of the
or wooden r
the little vill
 Houston
road, and is
the town are


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pped from this point to North-
spreads over a good deal of
ut eight hundred inhabitants.
"The Bulletin," is published
)d, and there are churches of
h some respectable store-build-


Pleasant residences.
nnected with it by a


 Five miles
"tram-road,"


Padlock, and four miles north is


age of Rixford.


lies six miles east of
surrounded by a good f
some fine springs, and


eral beautiful lakes
fish. Wellborn, tw
larger place, and a
settlers who have c
Iowa. There are sc
and in the neighb
lakes teeming with
famous Suwance W
ated on the banks o


containing an
elve miles east
among its popul
'ome thither fro
)me fine hammo


orhoo
fish.
'hite
f the


 Lake City, the most
is on the railroad about
It is a prosperous and


d are Lak


Live Oak, on the rail-
arming country. Near
in the vicinity are sev-
abundance of excellent
of Live Oak, is a much
nation are a number of
im Indiana, Illinois, and
ck-lands near the town,
:e Wellborn and other


 Only eight miles away are
Sulphur Springs, attractively I
Suwanee River.
important place in this reg
fifty miles west of Jackson
substantially built town of


ion,
ville.
some


twenty-five hundred inhabitants, with a number of brick
stores, well-kept hotels, seven or eight churches, good
schools, tasteful private residences, and a large trade in
vegetables and other products of the surrounding coun-