Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1878 — A Wonderful Spring, [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Spring,

Silver spring, Fla., is one of the greatest curiosities in the South. It bursts forth in the midst of the fertile country, bubbles up in a basin near 100 feet deep and about an acre in extent, sending from it a deep stream sixty to 100 feet wide, and extending six to eight miles to the Odawaha river. In the spring itself sixty boats may lie at anchor—quite a fleet. The spring thus forms a natural inland port, to which three steamers now run regularly from St. Johns, making close connection;} Witfe tl}e qepan steamers at Patytka,