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Show I VJesI Cossst SctSEed EsiOT East Coast Although much is heard about Florida's east coast, the west coast on the Gulf of Mexico is equally notable. From 10 to 30 years before St Augustine was founded, there were Spanish settlements at Tampa Bay, Churlotte Harbor and Pensacola. Pensa-cola. Much of the interior of western west-ern Florida had been explored and oranges had been introduced before be-fore either the Dons or the French had erected their first fort on the east coast. On the romantic Gulf coast of Florida is historical Tampa and its famous spring, Espiritu Santo, where De Soto slacked his thirst. |