The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-10-03

collected and upheld by strata OF clay above the lime
stone, that the water comes into contact with
the lime stone On the fiat pine land the water is
strongly impregnated with lime.
One of the most striking peculiartes of the coun-
try is the great number of small ponds which are
scattered it. They of various sizes, from one
quarter of an acre to 200 OF $40 acres, and some
much larger They are filled with pure fresh water,
and many of them abound with fish Of an excellent
quality. Some OF them have streams of water running
into them some have stream running from them
some have both, and many have neither. These last
supplied by springs rising up in the bottom of the
ponds. Many of them are eight and ten feet deep
in the deepest parts of them And all of them af-
ford failing supply of water to all the stock
wandering through the woods. There are few Farms
but what have some of these ponds or branches on
them which will be valuable to the planters when so
much of the land becomes cleared, that they will have
to keep up their stock and not suffer it to at large
in the woods.
Many persons, when they see the great number of
small ponds, Immediately conclude that the country
cannot be otherwise than unhealthy pestlental
halations must necessarily arise upon the drying up of
the ponds as is invariably the in all other parts of
the United States. A knowledge of the nature of
the ponds and of the removes this I'M
favorable impression. Most of the ponds never dry
up They keep at all at nearly the ele-
walton. When they dry up around the edges, during
the dry season. the retiring oil the wafer is llneul-
atey followed by rapid vegetation the border left
| by the water. The takes place in those few
ponds in which the water is totally evaporated Ano-
Their circumstance Of great weight must be taken into
consideration that the dry of this country is
in April and May in which months we never have fe-
yer produced by exhaation. When the hot weather
commences, the rains commence and the ponds are
/ filled.
Gadsden county has been settled about 6 years, and
Leon years and no fever has yet been produ-
ced by the ponds of the oak land. There have been
some of continued fever but they have occur
red among persons who reside on the low flat pine
land. All the residents of the country agree that
they have never known more healthy country. Ma
ny persons who came here sick have recovered their
health. All agree that their families have never had
better health 1t has generally happened in new set
Elements that the land becomes cleared, the country
becomes less healthy. This may be the in a
small degree with us, but the quantity of land that
will be cleared will be SO small in comparison with
what will be left in woods, that very great deero
ration Of the air will be likely to take place from that
cause.
:, The climate is milder than it is in the ati-
tude in Louisiana. Vegetation commences here earli-
er, and continues longer than it does there At least
this has been the for the last years. The heat
however is by oppressive even in the warm
est part of the season. For the last years the Their
momeer has only for few days shown heat of 940.
This would be very hot and oppressive in the middle
Fl States but it is not here. As regards sensation,
heat of 800 in Florida is not more oppressive than
| $50 would be in the middle States. | have often in