Ocala, a Sketch of Its History, Residences, Business Interests

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Excerpt from Ocala, a Sketch of Its History, Residences, Business Interests: With Illustrations of Picturesque Scenery and Portraits of Leading Citizens The object of this book is to answer clearly and completely every reasonable inquiry about Ocala and its environs. Believing that this purpose would be completely lost by departing from the truth, the author has prepared the accounts of climate, soil, mineral and manufactured products with conscientious accuracy, paring away unnecessary adjectives and avoiding the flowery and highly colored descriptions which usually characterize books of this kind. In the effort to portray Ocala as it is, the book has been profusely illustrated with reproductions of actual photographs. By this method no distortion of facts is possible, whereas, in the use of pen and ink work or wood cuts, the reader has no proof whatever that the attractive scenes on the paper before him have any existence except in the vivid imagination of the artist or engraver. To this proof of good faith, the writer needs only to add, that falsehood or hyperbole about such a favored region as this would be "a wasteful and ridiculous excess." The men who are described and the interests they so successfully conduct are here to speak for themselves, and Ocala is to-day Florida's most prosperous and progressive city. 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.