A Description of East-Florida

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Excerpt from A Description of East-Florida: With a Journal Kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, Botanist of His Majesty for the Floridas, Upon a Journey From St. Augustine Up the River St. John's, as Far as the Lakes, With Explanatory Botanical Notes As the commercial interests of Great-Britain are weighed by your Lordship daily, in order to be promoted, and a thorough knowledge of his Majesty's foreign dominions is sought after, with a view to the public service, I flatter myself, that an account of a new colony, whereof none hath as yet been published, will have the honour of meeting with your Lordship's approbation. During my residence in East-Florida, I endeavoured to acquire a knowledge of that country: I made myself acquainted, as far as my stay would permit, with its soil and navigable rivers, its climate and natural productions: I can assure your Lordship, my pursuit was made agreeable by the satisfactory evidences I found, both of the goodness of the soil, and the healthiness of the climate. 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.