Letters from FloridaD. Appleton, 1879 - 85 páginas |
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... industry , have managed to get down to Florida and enter a " homestead . " Erect- ing a rough but comfortable shelter , and furnishing it with what they would once have thought were worth- less scraps that remained out of former ...
... industry , have managed to get down to Florida and enter a " homestead . " Erect- ing a rough but comfortable shelter , and furnishing it with what they would once have thought were worth- less scraps that remained out of former ...
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... industry , all conspire to cheer the spirits , to keep the courage alive , and to lighten burdens which but for such en- couragement might become oppressive . I have many " Castles in Spain , " built when , miser- ably sick and feeble ...
... industry , all conspire to cheer the spirits , to keep the courage alive , and to lighten burdens which but for such en- couragement might become oppressive . I have many " Castles in Spain , " built when , miser- ably sick and feeble ...
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... industry , with but very little money , can do . It was on the St. Mark's . The place was once deemed the Saratoga of Florida , but during the war had been almost entirely destroyed . Three years before my visit it was waste and barren ...
... industry , with but very little money , can do . It was on the St. Mark's . The place was once deemed the Saratoga of Florida , but during the war had been almost entirely destroyed . Three years before my visit it was waste and barren ...
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... industry . Now , six years from the time when this gray - haired man with feeble steps began his work on a place which , like himself , seemed past renovating , you will not find anywhere a happier , more energetic man , or one who can ...
... industry . Now , six years from the time when this gray - haired man with feeble steps began his work on a place which , like himself , seemed past renovating , you will not find anywhere a happier , more energetic man , or one who can ...
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... industry and skill can effect , even in a place which on first sight seems worthless and past reclaiming . But bringing this land under proper cultivation , and redeeming it from the wilderness , is only a small part of the good which ...
... industry and skill can effect , even in a place which on first sight seems worthless and past reclaiming . But bringing this land under proper cultivation , and redeeming it from the wilderness , is only a small part of the good which ...
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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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