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is a 'topio which


of all


both


southern


in and


climates.


outlof Florida, and


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inevitably enters into the


much


been


there have been so


My misrepresentations about it as to render necessary a more


ided notice


than it


received


in my first


paper.


fsjpry has been.done to Florida as a winter resort
9tth by physicians and laymen, who have been a


A great


unwittingly,
accustomed to


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iate the idea of this State with that of swamps,


alligators,


a fevers, and wittingly by those who think it their interest to


misrepresentt facts.*


It is a matter of


the first importance that


physicians


least should


have


correct


ideas


otherwise patients are apt to be debarred from


from the very best season


the year


on this subject,
deriving benefit


here, the spring months.


In the first place, tourists


travel almost always along the water


courses, and seeing


them,


by interminable swamps,


on either
are apt to


side,
form


bounded


apparently


an erroneous idea of


the extent of
a narrow belt


the swamps


along


of Florida.


They usually form only


the river, and immediately behind are the


pine lands,


except when a strip


of hammock


intervenes, often


the tops of the pines being visible over the swamp.f


many


these swamps the tide


ebbs


flows, and they rarely give


Y ice,
o41i0


even


In summer,


any serious


form


fever.


oogqd place, the sickly


 of the native Floridians,


complexions and


gaunt forms of


many


who are met with at the landings, are


apt to


suggest


continued


inroads


malaria.


these


appearances are due not so much to the climate as to their pecu-


'3LM mode


their


scanty


clothing,


sufcient


t tiartha of the year,. but not, for the winter months;
 ^nfafitable habitations, but especially their food and drink.


three-
their
From


C:P .l t is the custom of many persons living at Florida resorts, off the St.
 i'd river, to represent, for very obvious reasons, to tourists, that fever pre-
 therethe year round, and that it is dangerous to visit it at any time.
 Snaner they have excited alarm in the minds of those proposing to
 o Florida, and have diverted them to other southern resorts; thus, in
 injanrig themselves as well as .others. Hotel runners and the agents
 Sline running to other localities all aid more or less in this fraad-
 3 to secure custom.


liar distribution of the


different


abMk or rioeet lands and the pine.,
r.ea work in the former by .day. a


where be I. comparativ


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