132 Notices of the Floridas, &c. 
bass, cavallaroes, mullet, and perch ; large green turtle are. 
the coast in summer. 
From the peninsular situation of East Florida, it proba- 
bly will be more healthy than the adjacent states. f 
its surface is daily cooled by sea breezes, and it is often. 
swept by winds from the ocean and gulf, producing a more 
uniform temperature than is experienced in districts that 
have snow clad mountains on their borders. At St. Au- 
gustine, from April to August, the thermometer, during the 
day, rarely varies more than ten degrees, ranging between 
seventy degrees and eighty degrees; but in August and 
September it is a little higher, from about seventy-five de- 
grees to eighty-five degrees. In the hilly region of the inte- 
rior, the extremes of temperature are greater than on the 
coast. In the summer of 1823, in Alachua, the thermometer 
sometimes stood at ninety—on four days of the preceding 
winter it fell to twenty-eight. The nights in spring an 
summer are often cool; in winter north-west winds are 
prevalent ; in summer a sea breeze from the Gulf of Mex- 
ico. The hills are elevated and dry. During the rainy 
or warm months the lakes are full, preventing the decay of 
vegetable deposits ; the waters are purified and cooled by 
their subterranean passage. Fogs rarely rest on the tikes 
the water being colder than the air, no vapours are con- 
densed. 
The Indians and negroes of this district have not been 
subject to fevers, and the few white settlers who have 
passed two seasons in Alachua, retained their health not- 
withstanding some were from northern climates, and daily 
exposed to the sun in the fields. Emigration to the inte- 
rior of Florida has recently been considerable. 
West Florida, being situated nearer the mountains with 
water only on one side, is colder in winter than the Penin- 
sula. 
THE SEMINOLE INDIANS. 
The Seminole Indians of Florida are derived from the 
Lower Creeks, and obtained their present location by con- 
quest—they were once numerous, but have been reduced 
by wars to a small remnant, ee not exceeding two or 
