. A guide to Florida . ed where aU the luxuries of the season are to be St. Augustine Hotel commands a THE BAY AND HARBOR OF ST. AUGUSTINE,and a Birds-eye View of the City itself. The proprietors will endeavor to make their guests as comfort-able as possible, no pains having been spared in providing the besthelp from the North. The Prices of Board vary according to location of room andlength of stay. GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 23 Alligator hunting is a sport peculiar to these southernlatitudes and can be enjoyed to perfection along therivers, lakes and lagoons of Florida. It takes a practiced
. A guide to Florida . ed where aU the luxuries of the season are to be St. Augustine Hotel commands a THE BAY AND HARBOR OF ST. AUGUSTINE,and a Birds-eye View of the City itself. The proprietors will endeavor to make their guests as comfort-able as possible, no pains having been spared in providing the besthelp from the North. The Prices of Board vary according to location of room andlength of stay. GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 23 Alligator hunting is a sport peculiar to these southernlatitudes and can be enjoyed to perfection along therivers, lakes and lagoons of Florida. It takes a practicedeye to detect an alligator, for it closely resembles a rottenlog, half-submerged and motionless. Shooting the alliga-tor from the decks of the river steamers is a commonenough custom, but the real alligator hunt is to be had onthe upper lakes where they swarm in almost countlessnumbers. Hunting parties for Lake Harney are made upat Enterprise, on the Upper St. Johns. The expense isnot much and the amusement St. Augustine. The antiquarian and enthusiast in historical researchwill find abundant material of interest in the visible tracesof the Spanish occupation of two and three centuries of ancient cities, forts, breastworks, churches,and roads may be found, sometimes when least expected,in the midst of dense forests which have grown up andcovered the vestiges of the early civilization. St. Augustine 24 GUIDE TO FLORIDA, the oldest city on the North American continent, is unsur-passed in interest to the antiquarian. The battle fieldsof the later Indian wars also have a peculiar attractive-ness. Here the tourist may study the historic spots illus-trated by the valor and genius of Jackson, Taylor andWorth. The State of Florida offers rare opportunitiesfor study to the students in Geology and Botany. Theformer have an interesting and important subject for in-vestigation in the extraordinary coral formation of thepeninsula; the latter in the wonderful and var
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