PREFACE.



 THESE Letters from Florida, by request of many
friends, are offered to the public in a simple, con-


venient form.


They do


not claim to


be a history


of Florida, but only the impressions left on a prac-


tical mind after several


years of close observation,


which have been growing stronger each year.


 I firmly
aggerate the
country. If


believe


wonderful


these


letters


capabilities of


do 1
this


lovely


some of my readers have the privilege


spending


a few months


years in succession, I


there, for two or three


am confident that


my "im-


pressions "


be so strongly confirmed as to


accepted as trustworthy authority.