What to see in America . der-ground river that daily discharges 300,000,000 gallons ofwater so clear that the bottom is distinctly visible eighty-fivefeet down. If you row out on the lake you marvel that suchan unseeable water can support anything so substantial asthe boat you are in. Twenty miles west of the neighboringcity of Ocala is the charming Blue Spring, which derivesmuch of its peculiar beauty from the wonderful vegetationthat grows in endless variety of color and form along therocky dikes and sandbars of the bottom. The most famous resort section of Florida is the east is
What to see in America . der-ground river that daily discharges 300,000,000 gallons ofwater so clear that the bottom is distinctly visible eighty-fivefeet down. If you row out on the lake you marvel that suchan unseeable water can support anything so substantial asthe boat you are in. Twenty miles west of the neighboringcity of Ocala is the charming Blue Spring, which derivesmuch of its peculiar beauty from the wonderful vegetationthat grows in endless variety of color and form along therocky dikes and sandbars of the bottom. The most famous resort section of Florida is the east is lined almost continuously from end to end with thecottages, mansions, and palaces of people from outside thestate who niake their homes there during the colder , great hotels and popular resort towns are numer-ous. A peculiar feature of the coast is that the mainlandnearly everywhere lies back of salt water lagoons. A seriesof narrow islands protect it from the oceans rude weaves, 196 What to See in America. Floridas Sea-going Railway and afford forsmall craft an in-side route of shel-tered the outer sideof the islands aresome splendidstretches of finest extendsforty miles fromMatanzas Inlet to Mosquito Inlet. No roadway madeby human hands could excel it, and here the racina: motorcars break the worlds speed records. On the other side ofthe island is a slender shallow arm of the sea, for much of thedistance known as the Halifax River. This is the homeof billions of oysters on which the aborigines fed from timeimmemorial, as is evidenced by the great heaps of shells alongthe banks. Some of the heaps are miniature hills. Suchmounds are distributed very evenly along the greater lengthof the eastern seaboard. Two important towns beside theHalifax River are Ormond and Daytona, and just south ofMosquito Inlet is New Smyrna, the oldest settlement on theAtlantic coast south of St. Augustine. Not far below New Smyrna is the north end of the IndianRi
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