126 FLORIDA.

 The river, as it is termed, is quite an indefinite body of
water. It is more properly a series of lagoons, overflowed
swamps, long narrow lakes, and great springs-all connected
and interlinked-the water-basin of the western portion of




























 FOBe ON THu OCKmAWAA.

 the St. John's River Valley. It is an extensive region of
 dense jungle, lying low and flat, undrainable, and impossi-
 Lake Griffin (twelve miles). It is also thought that the branch of the Tran-
 sit Railroad which now extends southward to Ocala will shortly be pro-
 longed to Leesburg and possibly to Lake Maitland.