The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-08-25
IDAHO WORLD.
DESCRIPTION OF FLORIDA.


DESCRIPTION OF FLORIDA
A Sentence Eight Hundred Words Long
An article in Lippincotfs Magasine contain
one of the longest sentences on record,-cou
sisting of over eight hundred words. The sen
tence in question 10 found 10 well written 81
ticle on Florida, and, as it 10 somewhat of
curiosity, as well as very good description Q
Florida, we append il:
~ propose, then. to give my readers som'
description of this old yet still strange and wilt
country, that has been settled for three hund
red years, and is not yet inhabited--a land o
shifting sand and.o deep mud-a land of nobl,
rivers, that rise in swamps, and consist merel,
OF chains of shallow lakes, soine of them TWEEN
ty miles long aud twelve miles across, and onl,
twelve feet deep--of wide, sandy plains, GOV
cred with solemn. astounding pines-ot spots ST
barren that nothing can be- made to grow upon
them, aud yet with soil so fertile that II you
tickle it with hoe it will laugh with an abun
dant harvest of sugar, cotton, rice and fruit
a land ot oranges, lemons. pomegranltes, hgs
pineapples and bananas; whose rivers TEEN
with fish, forests with game, and Its very air
with fowl; where everything will grow except
wheat and apples; where every thing can be-
found except ice; yet where the people. with 0
productive coil. y mild climate, and bountifpl
nature, afording every table luxury. live upan
corn-grits. sweet potatoes and molasses; where
many men possessing forty thousand bead pi
cattle never saw q glass 0f milk in thrir lives,
using only the imported article when used at
all. and then calling it eoRsocratod milk where
the very effort % milk n COW would scare her
TO death, as well rs frighten whole neighbour
hood BY the unheard of phenomenon where
cabbages grow on the tops 0f trees, and you
may dig bread out ot the ground; where. be-
low the frust-line, the castnr.oll plaRt becomes
large tree Of several years growth. and Il
pumpkin or bean vine will take root from its
trailing branches. aud thus spread aud live year
after year where cattle do not know what hay
Is, and refuse 1t when offered. So that the pur.
chase of a yoke of oxen Is not considered valid
il the animal will not eat in a stable; where.
in the mild winter, when the land grass is dried
up. horses and cattle may be seeu wading and
swimming III the ponds and streams. plunging
their heads deep under the surface to bite the
water grass and moss wh-re many lakes have
hules in the battom and underground eotnlnu.
nications. so that they will sometimes shrink
away to u mere cupiull. leaving many square
miles Of surface uncovered, aud then again oil
up from below and out over their iormer AREA
where some of them have outlets ia the ocean
far from shore, bursting up q perpetual spring
OF fresh water In the very midst vi the briA,
saltnrss Of the SEA- where In times of lnw wa
ter, during long exhaustive dry season. mrn
have gone under ground in one Ut thrsr sab.
terranrau rivers, iruIn lake To lake. dlstan.y.
of eight miles; where the ground will s,snc.
times sink aud the cavity fill with water, uatli
tall trees. that bad stood aad sank upright will
have their topm"st branches deeply covered
where rivers will disappear in the Earth and
rise again. thus forming natural bridges, satis
of them a mile in breadth where, INSTEAD vi
spring. summer. autumn and winter. thrrr are
two sras"ns only-elght months SIMMER and
four months warm wrathrr; where the winter
is dry sras1n and the summer almost daily
rain; where. IN order Ia TAXI a walk. y,,n first
wade thr"ngh light sand anklr.drrp. and then
get into mud .paddI-. aud smne of these mud.
puddIrs c"vrr wins le county: where nu clay
is found ht lar brick making. anJ people build
housrs without ehimnr,s: whrrr io make n
living Is 81 easy task, that every oDs. puss-ssg.s
the laziness vi ten ordinary tncn. aud every
one that you wish to employ in labor says that
be Is tired, and would s..eiu tn have been born
50; where agues would prevail il the people
would take the trouble to shake: where a large
orange tree would bear sven thousand oranges
leaves, buds, blossoms, halt-grpwn and full
grown fruit, all az ouce-and every twenty 6y.
feet square OF sand will sustain such n tree
WHERE. IN many parts, cold weather is an isn-
possibility and perpetual vrrfire rcigns; where
the Everglades are found. covering many large
counties with water from one to SIX icet deep.
with bottom undiscovered. yet undrrueath
solid and firm, from which grasses grow up to
the surface-a sea of green. and with islands !
large and small scattered over the surface. cuv.
cred with liye.oaks and drnse vegetation where
aligators, or gators, as they are called IN Flor.
ida parIance, possess undoubted aboriginal |
rights OF citizenship, and mosquitoes pay con.
slant visits, and are intrusive and even pene-
Erating 10 their attentions to strangers.p
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