Image: Seminole in Florida Everglades (1919)

Description: A Seminole in the Florida Everglades. Identifier: whattoseeinameri00john Title: What to see in America Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Picking Orange;- Florida 201 Text Appearing After Image: marshal of France whom Napoleon made King of Naples,was a former resident of Tallahassee, and there you can seehis home. The mocking-birds are reputed to be more nu-merous in this vi-cinity than inany other part ofthe South. Fif-teen miles downtoward the Gulfis a wonderfulspring, the Wa-kulla, which sendsoff a full-grownriver of the samename from itssingle outburst. The entire region is full of remarkablesprings, caves, sinks, and natural bridges. Southeast ofTallahassee extends a vast belt of woods merging into analmost impenetrable swamp and tangle of undergrowth.This is a famous hunting-ground, and somewhere in thewatery jungle is the Wakulla Volcano, whence rises acolumn of smoke or vapor from a spot so far within theswamp that no one has been able to get to it. In the north-ern central part of the state is the Suwannee River, im-mortalized in that best loved of all plantation songs, TheOld Folks at Home. There are at least 30,000 lakes in Florida. They areparticularly numerous in Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Seminole in Florida Everglades (1919)
Credit: Image from page 224 of "What to see in America" (1919)
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