Florida

Florida, “Land of Flowers,” the most southern of the American States, forms a bold peninsula on the E. side of the Gulf of Mexico, and has on its eastern shore the Atlantic; has a coast-line of 1150 m.; the chief physical feature is the amount of water surface, made up of 19 navigable rivers and lakes and ponds to the number of 1200, besides swamps and marshes; the climate is, however, equable, and for the most part healthy; fruit-growing is largely engaged in; the timber trade flourishes, also the phosphate industry, and cotton and the sugar-cane are extensively cultivated; a successful business in cigar-making has also of recent years sprung up, and there are valuable fisheries along the coast; Florida was admitted into the Union in 1845; the capital is Tallahassee.

Population (circa 1900) given as 391,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Florian, Jean Pierre de * Florio, John
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Fleury, Claude, Abbé
Flinders, Matthew
Flint
Flint, Robert
Floating Islands
Flodden, Battle of
Flood, Henry
Flora
Florence
Florian, Jean Pierre de
Florida
Florio, John
Florus
Fludd, Robert
Flushing
Fluxions
Flying Dutchman
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Fo-Hi
Foix, Gaston de
Foix, Gaston III. de

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Florida in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

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Apuleius, Lucius
Cabot, Sebastian
Catesby, Mark
Ellis, John
Garcilasso
Greenville, Sir Richard
Hakluyt, Richard
James, Sir William
Murphy, Arthur
Nicot, John
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