Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-08-31
Florida,


In this State there is an abundance for man and
beast to eat; the corn crops Is very prolific, and
it is now fodder pulling time" and the servants
in high glee. Meat is plentiful, and the stock Of
hogs abundant If the war last much longer,
there will be game enough in this State to feed
ry one in it. Squirrels, wild turkies, ducks, deers
old hares, and "possomS' are no longer afraid Of
the tread Of man.
I ean speak from experience Of the hsalthfulness
of the climate iu this State during the SUMNER
came here in the winter, in such health that my
friends appreheqded that wculd be in my winding
sheet before I reached the State. By merciful
Providence am alive, and so far as personal ap.
pearances 60, "long like to be." Ny health is
improving every dsy; the weather is as bearabls
as it is in Yfginia in very hot westhsf, and We are
generally refreshed with the sea breeze. Among
the valuable resources of the State may be mem
toned, 1.-THE salt boilings," the coast in many
parts receiving and deserving the name of "Salt
City,
am nov In beautiful and agricultural region,
on the Aucills, a broad and sluggish stream, which
ciety Is refined, consisting Of wealthy planters and
their households, who dispense the elegant hospi:
-talities Of the cultivated Suathron.
Among the products of the soil, becoming very
valuable, is the Pindar, kny* Il as the Arschis hy-
pogaeo Or ground nut. They are Offering ten dol
lars per bl+hel for the growing crop Planters eul-
tvate it fer their hogs and make five or ten thou
sand bushels in many instances. 1t produces
valuable OIL for machine purposes and haze seen
very good substitute Ius1e out Of it or the olive
OIL
If time and circumstances allowed, It would be
interesting and instructive to make geological
tour over the State The soil rests on very 'ex-
tshsive bed Of limestone Near St. Marks river are
strong Suprsr and Chal. 'eate Springs.
The old town St. Marks is situated at the juno.
ton of St. Marks and Waka!;a rivers. A singular
feature u the Wakalla is that it crops out and
makes its appearance for the first time in large
and deep spring, some eight or ten miles above its
junction with tie St. Marks, to which point it flows
Ike the sluggish Arar, described by Caesar, so
slowly US scarcely TO indicate its course, which is
iAtrue OF al ri-ers in fat countries The sudden
appearance of Wakalla river is an anomaly in the
physical geography of the Garth. 1t does not i'm.
bbs the spirit Of the fabled Aranthusa, and it il
unlike the feaks of several rivers in the old world,
which bury themselves for a time in the bosom Of
mother earth from whence they immerge purified
and strengthened.
III the eastern part Of this State the soil is but
thinly apreat over this limestone stratum Of which
have spoken. Upon the removal Of the soil.
sometimes 10: half an acre or more has been found
numerous circular wells, cut with the regularity
and smoothnsss of The hand Of art, perforating
limestone rock for many feet until it reaches fresh
freestone water. This vein Of water has. certainly
descended FROM the mountains, but whence the orr
gin of these wells. which vary from six inches to
two feet and upwards in diameters Theory BE-:
comes bewildered in the mazes of speculative sug:
eestion though nature has exhibited her handy.
works. The xeters once covered this portion Of
the land, was it ar eddying and circumfnent body
which, washing round and round bodies Of sand,
cut out these wells by attrition Let some new
born Humboldt investigate and deoide-Fsoridd
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