. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. hich are Pensa-cola, Choctawhatchee, St. Andrews, Appalachicola,Appalachee, Tampa, Charlotte, Ponce de Leon orChatham, and F. ISays, the last lying between theKeys and mainland. The chief rivers are , navigable about 100 m. for vessels of mod-erate draught, and emptying into the Atlantic aftera northerly course of 300 m.; Indian River, a longnarrow lagoon on the E. coast, which it is pro-posed to unite by a canal with the St. Johns; theSuwanee and Ocklokonee, which rise in Georgiaand flow into the Gulf
. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. hich are Pensa-cola, Choctawhatchee, St. Andrews, Appalachicola,Appalachee, Tampa, Charlotte, Ponce de Leon orChatham, and F. ISays, the last lying between theKeys and mainland. The chief rivers are , navigable about 100 m. for vessels of mod-erate draught, and emptying into the Atlantic aftera northerly course of 300 m.; Indian River, a longnarrow lagoon on the E. coast, which it is pro-posed to unite by a canal with the St. Johns; theSuwanee and Ocklokonee, which rise in Georgiaand flow into the Gulf of Mexico ; the Appalachi-cola, formed by the Chattahoochee and FlintRivers, and emptying into the bay of the samename; Choctawhatchee, Escambia, and Perdido,also flowing into the Gulf. The St. Marys makesfor some distance the N. boundary of the State. FLORIDA ?^ • , ^,Tore a, J«l feet above the sea. The,ng not •^^. V? *,ure is the immense tract of Emmotk., «;-r. it « ••? i,T,o. P State They are usually co^ered »i ^ forests are called, the is very i .^^^.^^. Fig. 195. —Seal op Florida. Lake Okeechohee, orBi-water. The isl-ands with which thisvast swamp or lakeis studded vary from |one fourth of an acreto hundreds of acresin extent. They aregenerally coveredwith dense thicketsof shrubhery or vines,occasionally withlofty pmes and pal-mettos. The wateris from 1 to 6 feet deep the bottom bemgcov^ered with a growth of rank grass. The ^ egetaoiedcDOMt of the Everglades is considered welladapted to the cultivation of the banana and Another remarkable feature of / • is tliesub erranean streams wWch undermine the rot enUmcstone formation, creating numerous caMties^ the ground called sinks These are inve tedconical hollows, or tunnels, ^?yg , if^rafrom a few yards to several acres, at the hoUoraof which running water often PP/^^^ „;f;, Tremarkable spring, situated 12 m. from Tallalias-Te^ ha^ 1 een^ounded with fathoms of Unebtf-ore finding bot
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