Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Volume 26, September, 1880

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880, byVariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880Author: VariousRelease Date: January 30, 2005 [EBook #14842]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading TeamLIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINEOFPOPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.SEPTEMBER, 1880.EKONIAH SCRUB: AMONG FLORIDA LAKES[Illustration: THE FORD.][Note: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by J.B.LIPPINCOTT & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, atWashington.]"And if you do get lost after that, it's no great matter," said the county clerk, folding up his map, "for then all you've got todo is to find William Townsend and inquire."He had been giving us the itinerary for our "cross-country" journey, by way of the Lakes, to Ekoniah Scrub. How many ofall the Florida tourists know where that is? I wonder. Or even what it is—the strange amphibious land which goes on fromyear to year "developing"—the solid ground into marshy "parrairas," the ...