The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-04-19
WHAT We HAVE
IN FAIR FLORIDA
THIS STATE is FULL OF NATURAL
CURloSITlES AND NATURAL
RESOURCES.
INTERESTING COMPARISONS
Florida Is the Most Unique and In.
teresting States in the
Union.

Starke.-Have you ever paused to
| contemplate what a wonderful state
Florida is? What a unique, interest
ing state, full of surprises and para
doxes, marvellous in it's wealth of
specimens of the three Kingdoms OF
nature, unsurpassed in scenery, full of
natural curosities and of inexhausti-
BILE resources?
Its coats line is as long as from
the northeast corner of Florida to
the northeast corner of Maine and
along its axis line the state is 700
miles. Owing to the difficulty of
travel until the railroad made it easy,
a journey from north to south Flor
ida, or from east to west Florida, was
considered the same, almost, as
journey to foreign country, and this
impression is still prevalent to some
extent. 1t is noteworthy that the
Philippine islands have their coast
lines better charted than is the line
of part of the west coast of Florida,
the part called the Ten Thousand Isl
ands, and this portion of the state
is still as much of a terra incognita
as is Central Asia.
The most ignorant peasant of the
old world has heard of three geo.
graphical names, the Jordan river, the
Mississippi river and Florida. Ever
since her discovery this state has
awakened, and kept up interest in the
world. In mutation and romance her
history has hardly had a parallel.
From the misguided adyenturer, who
sought the spring of eternal youth, to
the enterprising tilibuster who de-
fed gunboats while aiding the Cuban
cause, something has always hap
pened in Florida to keep her before |
the world. Bloody, romantic deeds |
have been done without number by |
Spaniard. Frenchman, Englishman,
American and Indian. No Indian tribe
has been so written and sung about |
as the SemiRoles, and while the
names of Sitting Bull and Geronimo
faded from public interest in less
than a generation, those of Oscsola
and his compatriots are still fresh
in the worlds memory.
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We G5E something any other state is
remarkable for he fn6s no difficulty.
for there are but few unique features
that any OF the states can show. Bat
whsG he comes 10 Florida he must
pause and choose. for this place has
50 many remarkable things worth
piegGriGs- Arizona has her elf dwell
irss, but We hare Our Indian mounds.
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inss: - have We, bat they are older
and better preserved. With the ex-
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there is no safe bat Florida that can
beast O. anything belonging 70 the
animal o. vegetable k-cs&o1 that
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the polar bear. ELortt&& has the crvc-
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