Memoir to Accompany a Military Map of the Peninsula of Florida, South of Tampa Bay (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoir to Accompany a Military Map of the Peninsula of Florida, South of Tampa Bay Nine miles south of the Indian Garden, there is a high point of the ridge, which is bare and dotted with patches of white sand, (bleach and, two miles below, at Mount Elizabeth, pine growth again appears upon the shore; the ridge receding towards the St. Lucie River. Between Mount Elizabeth and Fort Pierce, it borders the river, forming a steep high bank, covered with cabbage, palmetto, and other hammock growth. Along the top is a narrow strip of cultivable ground, from which there is a rapid descent, in land, to an open country, covered with fiagponds, savannas, sawgrass, marshes, and palmetto flats, with a few scattered pines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.