Show CURIOSITY A writer in the tie floridian ird ja Journal faja faya tais pays raja the upper stratum ot of florida rests refits on one vast network net work of of stupendous magnitude through which annum innumerable rivers creeks and mineral min pral water vater in sil gil ent nt darkness I 1 gerpe perpetually moally flow wakulla Wa Va kuila kulla ocil li a War cisSa crystal crystil homosassa Homo sassa tw atcha and silver ilver st spring are the prin r appal rivers the creeks of this denomination fire tire too num grons irons e corat to mention most of them aford fine mill they are too pully polly of or wholly ni viga ble for the smaller class clasa of steam and sail ves yei ivr ger stirl st irl throughout the entire distances of their subterraneous courses those that are not can bs be rade made so vilh comparatively sma rma friall 11 I 1 trouble r G U e and little expense the sam writer also bayr bays that tile the number of mineral and thermal spring springs s in florida is more inore than two thousand tl their thein acir principal princ pil solid ingredients are the tile sulphates of lime and soda oxide of iron and some iodine their volatile ingredients cons consist t of hydrogen carbonic aci acl acid d and nitrogen gases t these theae gabes gases soon evaporate if tho the water be exposed in an open vessel to the atmosphere its taste then becomes insipid in some cases either or acrid if florida be so thickly im bedded with mineral ore will it not rot clash with the theory of professor Profess cr Agassi agassiz iwho who bays gays that florida was built by the coral worm and other marine ani macula arid that it it took them upwards of one orie hundred thousand ears cars L tn accomplish sh il III home jou rou 1 anal t T |