Excerpt from Whitney's Florida Pathfinder: A Guide to Florida, Information for the Tourist, Traveler and Invalid, Season 1880-'81It was the veteran traveler and cavalier, Ponce de Leon, who inaugurated visitation to Florida's shores in search of health, where at the present day we observe thousands migrating thither for health and recreation. Each successive season terminates and we find an ih creased visitation to the State. And why should it not be so? Have not round i/ze world tourists sounded Florida's highest praises and proclaimed it as possess ing the most delightful climate upon the globe?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.