Excerpt from A View of West Florida: Embracing Its Geography, Topography, With an Appendix, Treating of Its Antiquities, Land Titles, and Canals, and Containing a Map, Exhibiting a Chart of the Coast The following pages are the result of the occasional employ ment of the writer, while engaged in other pursuits, during a residence of seven years in Florida. His attention was first attracted to the subject, by remarking the singular deficiency of the maps of West Florida, in his frequent excursions through the country. Having been appointed one of the commissioners for locating the new seat of government of Florida, the author, for his own satisfaction, made a minute survey of the coast, from St. Andrew's bay to the Suwannee, as well as of the interior of the country in which Tallahassee is situated. In consequence of the information thus acquired, he conceived the idea of pre paring a new map of that part of Florida which had come under his immediate notice; and of accompanying it with a memoir, or essay, containing such information in relation to the country, as would seem to be called for at the present moment. In appearing before the public as an author for the first time, he throws himself upon the candour of those who are in search of useful and accurate information, without being too fastidious as to the manner in which it is conveyed for they will find no attempt to amuse by highly wrought diction, or the ingenious inventions of the imagination his object has been to offer something useful to practical men. Although Florida is rapidly increasing in population, there are several causes which must tend to retard its progress in some parts, for several years to come these are, principally, the nu settled land claims, and the large grants possessed by individu als, which are withheld from sale for the purpose of speculation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.