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A NATURE WOOING. 



These remains of old Spanisli settlements are 

 found in various parts of Florida. They were noted 

 by Bartram more than a century ago, he writing of 

 them as follows:* "We passed four or five miles 

 through old Spanish fields. There are to be seen 

 plain marks or vestiges of the old plantations and 



dwellings; as fence 

 posts and wooden 

 pillars of their 

 houses, chimneys, 

 ditches, and even 

 corn ridges and ba- 

 tata hills. From the 

 Indian accounts, 

 the Spaniards had 

 here a rich, well- 

 cultivated and popu- 



Fig. 7 Long-billed Marsh Wren. loUS Settlement, and 



a strong fortified 



post, as they likewise had at the savanna and fields of 

 Capola, but either of them far inferior to one they 

 had some miles farther southwest toward the Apala- 

 chuchla River, now called the Apalachean Old 

 Fields, where yet remain vast works and buildings, 

 as fortifications, temples, some brass cannon, mortars, 

 heavy church bells, etc." 



These various Spanish settlements probably 



* Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West 

 Florida, etc., 1793, p. 231. 



