Letters from FloridaD. Appleton, 1879 - 85 páginas |
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... skill or craft to gain possession of her and keep her the longest . For a year or two it was in the hands of the French ; then wrested from their grasp by the Spaniards , only to be snatched from both by the strong arm of England . The ...
... skill or craft to gain possession of her and keep her the longest . For a year or two it was in the hands of the French ; then wrested from their grasp by the Spaniards , only to be snatched from both by the strong arm of England . The ...
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... skill or ingenuity could manufacture , they prepared a neat and pleasant abode . In this work the women of the family employed every leisure moment to increase their comforts , or make the place attractive , while they were ever ready ...
... skill or ingenuity could manufacture , they prepared a neat and pleasant abode . In this work the women of the family employed every leisure moment to increase their comforts , or make the place attractive , while they were ever ready ...
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... skill , united , can do . It has made our cold and rocky North bud and blos- som like the rose . Spread over Florida the same skill and energetic labor that for the last century has grad- ually clothed and beautified the North , and in ...
... skill , united , can do . It has made our cold and rocky North bud and blos- som like the rose . Spread over Florida the same skill and energetic labor that for the last century has grad- ually clothed and beautified the North , and in ...
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... 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 might be ...
... 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 might be ...
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... skill , little by little , be made a neat and pleasant home . Newport , on the St. Mark's , the west side of Flori- da , is one of these spots - given up by those of its former inhabitants who still live ; and yet the tenant- less ...
... skill , little by little , be made a neat and pleasant home . Newport , on the St. Mark's , the west side of Flori- da , is one of these spots - given up by those of its former inhabitants who still live ; and yet the tenant- less ...
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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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