150 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY I3TH AN-NUAL REPORT 



withstanding the poor soil, a large part of the population gets its 

 living from the water, as is the case on most coasts all over the 

 world. The winter tourist business is a very important item here 

 too, and what farming there is is very intensive, as will be shown 

 presently. 



About one-third of the population would be classed as urban by 

 the United States census definition, but about two-thirds of the peo- 

 ple live in incorporated places, the. largest of which in 1915 were 

 Daytona, with 4,250 inhabitants; New Smyrna, with 2,012; Titus- 

 ville, 1. 310; Ormond, 857; Cocoa, 807; Daytona Beach, 582, Eau 

 Gallic, 543; Seabreeze, 443; Melbourne, 408; Holly Hill, 378; Port 

 Orange, 296; and Hawks Park, 178. All of these are on the main 

 line of the Plorida East Coast Railway, or on the barrier beach 

 east of it. (Stations on that railroad in central Florida average 

 about 3 1/2 miles apart.) They are all popular winter resorts, and 

 their combined hotel capacity, according to the latest estimates, is 

 ever 6,000. 



The composition of the population may be deduced approximately 

 from the figures for Brevard County, although that contains less 

 than half the total. In 1910 that county had 65.5% of native 

 whites, 4.7% foreign whites, and 29.7% negroes. If similar figures 

 for the eastern half of Volusia were available the proportion of for- 

 eigners (already the highest in central Florida outside of Hills- 

 borough County) and of negroes would doubtless be increased. 

 In the incorporated places above listed 37% of the population in 

 the summer of 191 5 was colored, and Daytona and Ormond had 

 more negroes than whites. The leading foreign nationalities in 

 Brevard County in 1910 were English, German, Danish, Canadian. 

 Irish, Italian, Scotch, and Swedish, and in Brevard and Volusia 

 together English, German, Canadian, Swedish, Italian. Irish, 

 Scotch, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, and Swiss. Some of the na- 

 tive whites are descendants of Minorcans brought from the Bal- 

 earic Islands by Dr. Turnbull in the latter part of the i8th century. 



On account of the dense population, mostly living in towns, and 

 the fact that a large proportion of the people (not ascertainable 

 for any census since 1880, however) have come from other states 

 and therefore almost necessarily learned to read before making tlie 

 journey, the illiteracy percentages are low. Among the person? 



