Tourists' and settlers' guide to Florida . e,and, as is common along this shore, is shut in from the openGulf by a distant island. The water is shallow and abound-ing in fish and oysters. Back of this place, within easywalking distance, are ponds or lakelets, where, in summer,wild ducks are plentiful; also, a variety of dark-colored wildgeese, known locally as negro geese, make it a favoritehaunt. These are small but edible, and huntsmen callshooting them capital sport. In winter the wild ducks and all varieties of wild geesemultiply upon the face of the water, and appear in immensequantities.
Tourists' and settlers' guide to Florida . e,and, as is common along this shore, is shut in from the openGulf by a distant island. The water is shallow and abound-ing in fish and oysters. Back of this place, within easywalking distance, are ponds or lakelets, where, in summer,wild ducks are plentiful; also, a variety of dark-colored wildgeese, known locally as negro geese, make it a favoritehaunt. These are small but edible, and huntsmen callshooting them capital sport. In winter the wild ducks and all varieties of wild geesemultiply upon the face of the water, and appear in immensequantities. Quincy. Distance from Jacksonville, 189 miles; fare from Jack-sonville, $ Take Plorida Central and Peninsular Rail-way from Union Depot. This beautiful little town is about twenty-five mileswest of Tallahassee, and, like that city, lies among the redclay hills of Middle Florida. In traveling westward themarked change in the appearance of the country is surpris-ing and grateful. The level sand of the pine woods, the OiAZL- CIGAR CO.,. NEW YORK m[ i/ll/f E! AND FLOKIDA, :MANUFACTURERS OFE FINE CIGARS. Xew York Office, 204 East 27tli Street. Plantations and Factories, QUINCY, FLORIDA. Manufacturers of the celebrated hrauds ROBERT BURNS, ROYALOWL, WHITE OWL, BELLE OF SARATOGA, CAPADURA, and other well-known brands LOVE HOUSE, QUINCY, FLORIDA. Mrs. S. W. LOVE, - - Proprietress. Special Rates by Week or Month. Free Sample Rooms.°^H 128 tourists and settlers guide to FLORIDA. wet swamps of the low hammocks, the sluggish watercourses and quiet lakes, give place to high hills of red clay,firm and hard, groves of hickory, maple, wild cherry andother hard woods, singing brooks dancing down slopinghillsides. Amid such a country as this nestles the pretty town ofOuincy,just now possibly the most lively, wide awake townin Florida. It was, until a few years ago, a typical old a)ite-bellumtown, peopled by old, aristocratic, exclusive families, whoseformer slaves, in many instances, rema
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