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inasmuch as the same canals which may drain the inundated swamps of 
their elevated interior, will irrigate ah —e sands of its lower seacoast, and 
furnish water carriage and water power to the cultivators of both ; that its 
geographical position and political tine § are superadded motive to 
divert the emigration of our tropical ena nga from Spiga and Cuba, 
and the voyages of our consumptive invalids from France and Italy, to 
9 ical Florida; and, finally, that all six 2 ~~ at may thence 
thus be exten ‘and acclimated Spi our States, i a s fa r 
A our improved tropical staples of tobacco, cotton, rice, and s th 
the Government and people of the United States have, heretolore ‘consid- 
ered tropical Florida to be a sickly and sterile terri itory, on account of the 
swamps of its interior, and the sands of its sna and hence ninworthy of 
the expense and trouble of surveying and sale; but the subscriber has 
shown that ¥ enjoys an extraordinary climiateyt = which it becomes a once 
both healthy and productive in even its rudest natural state ; it pos- 
sesses a peculiar formation, by which it-may speedily acquire ‘a x addi- 
tional advantages of a highly improved condition; and that it is hence, 
alone, extremely worthy of immediate surveying and sale, and ‘naa 6 
and. populati That population may be speedily cor mposed of those citi- 
zens whose persons and property are annually lost to their ps ari ancuank 
false representations of the value of the earth in Texas, and of the air ‘In 
Italy ; by showing them the great superiorities for wealth and health co 
ed in the climate, the formation, the position, and the Government “ie 
southern Florida. As the humblest sectarians of New York have greatly 
promoted the public health and their private wealth, by the laborious prop- 
agation of the ordinary extra-tropical mew icines alone, so the feeblest set- 
tlers of southern Florida may combine much more extensive public hu- 
manity, with much more profitable itvees Scaler, by the easier reproduc- 
tion of the extraordinary inter-tropical medicine alone. As the genuine 
7 species of medicinal plants are now nearly exterminated in Topeak coun- 
tries,* and as the valuable lives of numerous citizens are hence annually 
destro by noxious substitutes imported under similar names, public 
philanthropy also should aid private enterprise in the immediate introduc- 
tion of the salutary medicines to tropical Florida. But, as the enjoyment 
of sorreaen and mental health are still more important than the remedies 
rial aad moral disease, derived in general from physical and intel- 
legeak ae the preservative prosperity of mind and body, by - 
ing poverty and tanto from society, is the principal aim of modern 
philanthropy. Yet ng all human suggestions to improve the social 
condition, by ecautien aoe pal wealth and intelligence, the subscriber 
een a hich app 
Divine Providence itself, in creating many productive perennial plants, 
which profitably propagate themselves in the worst natural ota and 
the 
skill, or labor of man. Hence the tropical plants, by pica 
for immediate See pation in ettasien! Florida, and gradual seaipation in 
the extra-tropical Siates, combine the merits of —_ the greatest possi 
ble products, with the least possible labor, in the poorest possible soils ; and 
hence their introduction will be an peda br to geemirect addition of 
The: natives es collet the plats while flowering, and hence there is no spontaneous repro- 
duction by se : 
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