FLORIDA.


 Still farther south is found the Lake Harris region, situ-
ated in Sumter and Orange Counties, principally in Sumter.
These lakes include Harris, Eustis, Griffin, and Dora, all
large lakes of four to ten miles in length and width. There
are numerous other smaller lakes in their vicinity, but these
named are the principal. These lakes, as explained in the.
preceding chapter, form the head-waters of the Ocklawaha
River, and are surrounded by the richest lands of the most
fertile region of Florida. Their shores are everywhere re-
markably beautiful, and the land would be highly produc-
tive under cultivation. There are already many splendid


orange-groves growing on thei
flowing in.
 Lake Panasofkee, situated
of the Harris cluster, in the
large lake surrounded by rich
is fully described in the chap
with Mr. French.)
 Lake Apopka, just to the


is a lake region
is known to the
region. It is a
The surrounding
of rich soil. A
State are in this
 Again passing
region of Orange


ir shores, and settlers are fast

a considerable distance west
same county, is a noticeably
hammock-lands. (This lake
ter on the tour of the State


south of the Harris group,


by itself, so to speak, for all that section
people of the State as the Lake Apopka
large lake, with a coast-line of fifty miles.
country is quite beautiful in scenery and
number of the best orange-groves in the
region, entirely beyond danger of frosts.
g south and east, the famous inland lake
SCounty is reached. It is in the vicinity


of Maitland, Osceola, Interlaken, an
lakes are most numerous. Looking
those places, several of these pretty
seen. From a certain standpoint in 1
in plain sight.
 Their sizes vary from ten acres to
their shores are, generally speaking,
land of that region is covered with a


d Orlando, that these
in any'direction from
little lakelets can be
Mlaitland nine lakes are


three thousand acres;
slightly rolling. The
heavy growth of pine,