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Title: What to see in America
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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avy with tropical growths, and usuallyplumed with one or two palmettos. The water is nowherestagnant or wholly at rest, and is clear, limpid, and palatable.Not until 1883 did any organized expedition cross the Ever-glades. Here dwell about three hundred Seminoles, whoare some of the most picturesque Indians in the United States.They are a remnant of the large tribe against which thegovernment waged war from 1835 to 1842 at a cost of 1500lives and $20,000,000. Osceola was one of their leaders, andCoacoochee, or Wildcat, another. Early in the war theIndians surprised one hundred and ten United StatesRegulars near the Wahoo Swamp on their way from FortBrooke to Fort King, now Ocala, and killed all but two.On Christmas Day, 1837, a general engagement was foughton the northern shore of Lake Okechobee. The outcomeof the war was the deportation of most of the tribe to Westernreservations. Floridians are popularly called Fly-up-the-creeks, aname borne by some of the small herons of the state.
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A Street in Mobile (5^1 UtlruU Fub. Co. XX Alabama In 1702 the French estabhshed themselves on the shores ofMobile Bay, but things did not go smoothly. There was acurious revolt known as the Petticoat Insurrectionwhen the women of the place became dissatisfied withIndian corn as their staple article of food, and threatenedrebellion. A hurricane and flood which nearly destroyedthe settlement in 1711 caused the people to remove to thesite of the present city, the oldest settlement in Alabama.For the next nine years Mobile was the seat of governmentof the vast Louisiana territory. The best known episode inits history is Rear-admiral Farraguts forcing his way intothe Bay in the Civil War. The main entrance, which isabout thirty miles below the city, was guarded on either side 204 Alabama 205 by a fort, and the channels between the forts were filledwith obstructions and torpedoes, while within the bay werethree Confederate gunboats and a powerful ironclad ram.Farraguts fleet of fourteen wo

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