MALARIAL FEVERS.


Do not think I am only giving you one-sided state-


ments.


I would not have


you think that I imagine


Florida the very Garden of Eden before the fall,


with


the serpent and all other disagreeable things left out.


Not so at all.


I only wish you to see it as it is,


with


many


faults, many


drawbacks,


prevent perfec-


tion; but none of them in a worse or more aggravated
form than is common to all lands, and very few that
skill and labor cannot remove entirely.
 Please to bear this in mind, and remember also that
there are, for the sick, the feeble, and the poor, hopes
and comforts that our dear but less genial North can


not offer.


Here is cheaper land, no frost or cold at any


season of the year to prevent outdoor labor, and the


soil and


seasons both able to give two or three remu-


negative crops a year, aside from the luxury of almost


every variety


must
will


of tropical fruits.


annoying to every


necessity


The obstacles


new settler are such as


be found in every spot where man


begins to reclaim primeval forests, and turn them into
productive fields and comfortable homes.
 No sensible persons will come to enter new lands


here,
home,


with


intention


of making it


a permanent


without being prepared to feel the loss of many


of the comforts and


privileges that they


have


been


accustomed


to from childhood-the circle of friends


that have grown up with them, the church relations,


and,


they have


children, the lack


schools and


seminaries.


counting the cost, all these must


added to the amount, and the legitimate effect of this


important calculation


should


to strengthen


their