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The coast is deeply inaented with small gulfs and in- 
lets, and intersected with numerous rivers. Along the 
south coast are several islands, which are included in 
the province, but which are of little importance or uti- 
lity. The most remarkable are Cat Island, eight miles 
Florida. 
Islands. 
. east of St teas Bay, above six miles in-dengthy-and- 
i pars pl with immense quantities of shells; Ship Island, 
about ten miles south of Biloxy Bay, nine miles long, 
and two broad; Horn Island, about six miles farther 
east, very narrow, and about seventeen miles in length; 
Massacre Island, two miles east of the last mentioned, 
also very narrow, but nearly‘hine miles long; Dauphin 
Island, five miles farther east, six miles in ie , and 
about two in breadth ; Rose Island, a long and narrow 
sandy slip parallel to the coast, between Rose Bay and 
that of Pensacola; and the Tortugas, about ten in 
number, nearly opposite the most southern point of 
East Florida, covered with mangrove bushes, and ex~ 
tending ten or eleven miles from north-east to south- 
west. Some of these oe are mere sand, and none 
of them uce any thing better than s and pines. 
The oriteipal idind in the east coast 3s Aniaatintsy op- 
posite to the town of St Augustine, divided from the 
in length. by a narrow channel, and twenty-five miles 
in 
The rivers, which empty themselves into the Atlan- 
tic ocean, are St Mary’s, the common boundary be- 
tween Florida and Georgia, about a mile broad at its 
mouth ; St John’s river, rising in a marshy tract near 
the middle of the peninsula, and flowing gently north- 
ward, traverses several lakes, (the lowest of which, 
, is 20 miles long and 12 broad,) and falls 
into the sea about 40 miles south of the St Mary ; and 
Indian river, which runs from north to south, and falls 
Rivers. 
“into the sea about 60 miles south of Cape Cannaveral. 
Most of the rivers which fall into the Gulf of Mexico, 
have their source in the province of Georgia, and the 
most Seeathy of paces ate the Appalachicola, which di- 
vides East West Florida, and is composed of two 
streams, the Flint and the Chatohuthe, arising in the 
Ape mountains, and uniting on the confines of 
ida ; the Escambia, the source of which is unknown 
to E , and which empties itself into the bay of 
Pensacola; the Perdido, formerly the boun be- 
tween Louisiana and Florida, and falling into the sea 
four leagues west of Pensacola Bay ; the Mobile, which 
has its source in the country of the Chickasaws, and, 
he! pce seats hghena ta Tombeche, and 
which, reeei becomes navigable 
nearly 120 miles from its mouth; the P 
which is navi upwards of 150 miles, and which 
falls into the about 16 miles west from Mobile 
Bay ; the Pearl River, which originates in the Chaclaw 
territories, and is also navigable upwards of 150 miles ; 
and the Regolets, which is worthy of notice, chiefly as 
issuing from lake Ponchartrain,-which is 40 miles long 
and 34 braede 
Augustine, the capital of East Florida, and origi- 7, 
nally founded by the i about the year 1580, eg 
stands in 29° 45’ North Lat. on the coast of the Atlan- 
tic. It is built at the neck of a peninsula, in an oblong 
pa re " oa I fortified withrbestiong 
at t les. It is forti i i 
po Pir ass adi itch, and is also defended by a 
castle called Fort St John, well provided with ordi- 
nance. The river St Mark flows the harbour, 
and separates the town from the island Anastasia. The 
and south breakers, at the entrance, form two 
whore bars Have sight feet of water. Pensa~ 
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