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Show The Wadena rlaea In -"Beautiful Kpringe." near Thomaa City, on the Tallahassee (Southeastern railroad, not far from the etate capital, and flows duo aouth to within three miles ot the Aucllla liver where It dlaappeara underground and thea reappeara In the Aucllla. Uogmea have cut a email canal from the point at disappearance disap-pearance to the Aucllla. The Aucllla rlaea In Georgia and flowa In a eouthweoterly direction, forming the eastern boundary or Jefferson Jef-ferson county. Florida. About three mllee aouth of where the Tallakaaaee Southeastern forms adjunction with this river the Aucllla sinks and runs underground la a winding way for poeilbly twelve miles, rlelng about three mllee north of where the Wa-class Wa-class comes into it from below the earth. The couree of the river le traced by alnkholea and It can be Been plainly. plain-ly. Aa proof of thla an object dropped Into the aiream where It rtrst sinks Is eetn to rise and paaa through the various alnka to the point twelve mllee below, where It finally cornea to the aurface. The St. Marka. the third of the "aunken rlvere." Is a few mllea to the west of the Waciaea and Aucllla. It also alnka and rlsea again a abort dla-tanee dla-tanee eway, making Florida "Natural "Natur-al Bridge.'1 At thla point ot the atate'a hardest battles waa fought in the Civil war. moatly by old men and cadete from the West Florida seminary at Tallahaaaee. on tha Confederate side. A monumsnt wss erected there in 122 by runds appropriated by the legislature legisla-ture and waa dedicated Memorial day. 1122. to the memory of the Confederate Confed-erate aoldlera who loot their Uvea la the fight. |