Florida a Pamphlet Descriptive of Its History, Topography, Climate, Soil, Resources and Natural Advantages (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Florida a Pamphlet Descriptive of Its History, Topography, Climate, Soil, Resources and Natural Advantages Florida, the southeastern State of the United States, lies between 25 degrees and 31 degrees north latitude, and between 80 degrees and 88 degrees west longitude from Greenwich. Until recently the area has been estimated at 59,268 square miles, but according to a bulletin recently issued by the Census Bureau the State contains but 58,680 square miles. In this latter document the coast waters, bays, gulfs, sounds, harbors. &c., are pat down at 1800 square miles of surface; rivers and smaller streams at 390 square miles; lakes and ponds at 2,250 square miles - making the whole water surface 4,440 square miles, and leaving 54,240 square miles of land surface, or 34,713,600 acres. Italy is said to resemble in shape a boot, with the foot turned southward. Florida has somewhat the same resemblance with the foot turned northward. The peninsular portion, measuring from the northern boundary, extends south about 400 miles, with an average width of about 100 miles. The northern part of the State extends from the Atlantic westward along the southern boundary of the States of Georgia and Alabama about 375 miles, with a width to the Gulf of from 40 to 90 miles. North and South America, Africa and Asia, owing to some great natural causes which worked in their formation, are all pointed or narrowed in their breadth in their farthest extension south. Florida, probably from the operation of the same causes, is of similar shape in her southern extremity. Her territory is included in the same zone in which, according to the most ancient of books, the human race had its origin, and in which the Garden of Eden was said to be situated. This zone embraces the territory of the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Babylon, Greece and Rome. The average altitude of Florida, as set forth in Toners Dictionary of Elevations of the United States, is 60 feet above the level of the sea. This is a somewhat lower average level than that of any other of the States. Louisiana, the next lowest according to that authority, is 75 feet above the sea in its average. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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