Letters from FloridaD. Appleton, 1879 - 85 páginas |
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... beautiful palmettoes , and under the grand old oaks , one still hears the whispers of a wild and terrible tragedy , as full of strange and thrilling inci- dents from which to weave a story as the most sensa- tional writer can desire ...
... beautiful palmettoes , and under the grand old oaks , one still hears the whispers of a wild and terrible tragedy , as full of strange and thrilling inci- dents from which to weave a story as the most sensa- tional writer can desire ...
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... beautiful St. John's . Amid such surroundings some one will rise up whose fertile imagination can combine and skillfully weave together the many romantic incidents to be found among the curious legends of Florida . But that is a work ...
... beautiful St. John's . Amid such surroundings some one will rise up whose fertile imagination can combine and skillfully weave together the many romantic incidents to be found among the curious legends of Florida . But that is a work ...
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... beautiful lies desolate in many parts of this country through the devastations of war , and so much money and labor will be needed to restore the waste places and revive the original loveliness , the growth of interest , mostly through ...
... beautiful lies desolate in many parts of this country through the devastations of war , and so much money and labor will be needed to restore the waste places and revive the original loveliness , the growth of interest , mostly through ...
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... beautiful country . I have told you of my window - view . Now step out into the moonlight , as I have often done , from among the orange - trees , or under the China LIFT UP THE HANDS THAT HANG DOWN STRENGTHEN THE FEEBLE KNEES.
... beautiful country . I have told you of my window - view . Now step out into the moonlight , as I have often done , from among the orange - trees , or under the China LIFT UP THE HANDS THAT HANG DOWN STRENGTHEN THE FEEBLE KNEES.
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... beautiful inland lakes , where one family — and sometimes two or three - five or six years ago , felled the first trees and broke the ground in the midst of the forest , where never before had there been an acre of cleared land . Some ...
... beautiful inland lakes , where one family — and sometimes two or three - five or six years ago , felled the first trees and broke the ground in the midst of the forest , where never before had there been an acre of cleared land . Some ...
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551 BROADWAY abundant acres American Painters APPLETON attractive beautiful Beecher blackberries bring build cattle cleared climate Cloth comfortable home courage crops cultivation desire destroyed easily EIGHTY-THREE EXAMPLES English feeble flowers forest frost fruits Garden of Eden give graft grass guava hardships history of Florida I'ze industry John's John's River kind labor lady Lake land large number Letters from Florida lichens lovely lustrated luxury malarial fevers Mark's ment morning needed North Northern once orange orange-culture orange-groves orange-trees Palatka palmettoes piney wood pioneer plantation planted pleasure poor potatoes productive promise PUBLISHERS raised ready rejuvenated rich river Rollestown secure sensible settled sick sketches of fifty skill sour stumps South spring suffering sweet sweet potatoes things tion trees truth vegetables villages volume waste White Mountains wild wilderness winter wise woods York York Evening Post York Observer
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