The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-06-03
a Tourists Opinion Of Our City
and Country.

We find in the Alliance Ohio Stand
ard of May 10th and 23d, letters from
gentleman who visited Tallahassee last
month. We submit the following extracts
as testimony by stranger to the ex-
celcnce Of the land we live in, and in
justification of the pride we have in it and
the love we bear it:
This section, Ivy some Grand upheavel in nature,
was made an abutmcnt for the coral insects and
waters OF the Atlantic ocean and the Gulf OF Mex-
60 10 wash their sands against 10 form the balance
OF The State Ih"succcsSlons OF hills and wales win
stretches of bard wood forests, and here and there
| pure water lake to lend an enchanrnent to the
| view, and glimpse through the branches OF the
| grand old live oaks and magno4s OF a chimney or
gable end OF some stately old mansion-where hospi
tally characteristic of the sunny CLINE and its PEG
PIE Is so beautifully bestowed-form picture mol
soon forgotten such are the landscapes OF Middle
Florida, especially around Tallahassee, the Capta
| OF the State. Tallahassee, town of some two or
three thousand Inhabitants. is built on one OF these
hills and about the centre of this high rolling coun
| Try, and is called the Floral City of the fowery
| south and think tie claim merted, Judging
| from the abundance OF flowers, from the lovely
pansN TO the stately Towering tree with proiuslon
oi climbing vines, etc. In front OF tue houses, Al
The sides of houses and in the OF houses are to
| he seen artsticav arranged flower beds and walks,
cach nome YlclnT with each other III their NUMBERS,
fragrance aud skill of arrangement, and no home is
so lowly but that it has its flowers, which go far to
| dl,!e' The want of architecture ana paint
the cemetery in Tallahassee cannot be passed
without notice 1t i located at the foot OF the nil,
| III the midst ot a live OAK grove, whose branches
| almost touch each other the twenty acres OF
ground II covers. The graves and vaults with plain
headstnncs and sh tits on large, spacious lots,
some fen ed, some walled and others not, but all
with iowers, shruns and vines III profusOn, and the
I wafoilng 81 the numerous mocking birds and other
sweet songsters gave in this city of the dead re-
| Elections and comnunions fser grand and
| lof'y, and confirms ouf knowledge 1T Immortality
| The half day well spent in Tallahassee GENE
| terry and has left it, immprcssiODs on our life
| Among the notlbles buried here are the Prince
Achiilr Mura and wife son of the King of Naples
| Their graves are marked with very plain marble
shafts.
Driving in all directions from Tallahassee, for q
radius Of many mi 'cs, We ind the same succession
OF hills and wales and hare wood forests and larg,
bodies {" cleared land, iha before the war were the
princey estates ofthe slave owners bur now under
the new order of things axe being sold in quantities
10 sui purchasers.
Upon "A minute examination of the soil we fine
II To be Il clay basis, with dark colored sandy
joan top soil, capable II producing vegetation
without commercial fer Tzcrs. We gooC
soil in Leon county ever in Ohio, anC
have no tc-,A onln say |. that, with proper iota
non, green solliug, man lrlng ana cultivation, ut
practioed IN tue North, he soil here will RESPOND
Just as literally We s.w cereals, vegetables anC
fruits grow ng !uXuri t'tly and producing abun
dainty without iertiliZnc. "" also saw much lane
that was Impoverished ty long continuous cult
v~ti"n OF cotton nd tobacco, but by bringing t'
the surface i thu never Jaw the light and by thu
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