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Show WONDROUS LAND OF FLORIDA Famous Tarpon Springs Not Among the Least of Things That Have Made It Widely Known. The western coastal country of Florida is one of the most amazing natural color effects in the world. A land of pine and oak forests and cypress and palmetto swamp, intricately intricate-ly jigsawed and inlaid with lakes and rivers and bays, it is a poem in green and blue, marvelously matched and blended. Dark green tire the pine forests, for-ests, and darker yet the live and water wa-ter oaks; deep blue are the little lakes and the slow-moving streams that creep under arching tangles of forest far into the wilderness whore the alligators bellow and the rare white ibises nest. A brighter note a glinting, fiery blue is struck by the waters of the gulf, placid in the bright Florida sunlight, sun-light, rolling in -eBCy swells to break upon a narrow, snowy beach washed immaculate by their endless laving. Within a "few miles of stilt water, at a point not far from Tampa bay, there is an immense spring, which has formed a pool perhaps a hundred yards wide, and of depth unknown-soundings unknown-soundings have never found its bottom. bot-tom. At times the waters of this pool lie clear as the summer air, gradually deeping into the green shadows of Its mysterious tarpon may then be seen, and they give the spring its name. The vicinity of this strange spring has always fascinated men. The aborigines have left their shell mounds all about it; and in modern times a neat little town, made up largely of winter residences, had grown up. Its banks have been parked and cemented, and it has been made a harbor for expensive ex-pensive pleasure craft. All about it are fashionable cottages and bungalows, bunga-lows, children play upon its beaches; lovers peer into its wonderful depths and see nothing but themselves, far below, in its darkest crannies, the great silver tarpon still live and hunt as they have for countless centuries. |