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with ample house-grounds. Thrift, prosperity, good taste,
and enterprise are everywhere manifest. The Florida
Southern Railway Company (narrow-gauge line), one of the
most extensive corporations in the State, has its headquar-
ters here, the car-shops, storehouses, depots, wharf, and gen-
eral offices being all established. Also the general offices


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of the Ocklawaha River and the Crescent Lake lines of
steamers are here, and the Charleston and Savannah lines
of ocean-steamers make this place their up-river terminus.
It will be seen that its shipping and transportation facilities
are quite important. The population is about eight hun-
dred, mostly energetic, Northern-born people.