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ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 1, 1882. No. 21. { ONK ayeail AR
being about T% feet long, and Its height at
the withers five feet. The horns set on the
crown of the head, are strong and lofty, the
ears large and sharpened to a point, and in
Northern Africa the color of the animal
varies to a light brown, with a thick and
dark-brown tail. In this region, which is
its peculiar home, it is known as the desert
cow-antelope. A South Africa species,
called the hind-antelope, has a longer and
narrower head and stronger horns with a
more decided curve. Its general light brown
color is varied with black stripes and white
spots, the latter nearly covering the belly
and lower parts of the breast.
The habits of the various classes of an
telopes here described do not greatly differ.
The colored antelopes are found in great
in the mountainous parts of South Africa,
Written specially for the Southern World.
HOME IjIFE IN FLORIDA,
BV HELEN IIARCOURT.
Second Paper.
“Where shall I Settle T ”
In our first and initial paper we considered
the above all important question in its more
general application, with regard to the great
range of temperature and productions
throughout the State.
Let us now look at the subject from a more
local point of view, and this we cannot do
better than by paying a brief visit to the
several different divisions of Florida, to
wards which the great bulk of immigration
is setting with a rapidly increasing impetus,
namely, the Southern parts of Eastern and
their own particular localities. Now wo
would respectfully suggest that this is rather
an unjust accusation; true, the State has
been “sectionalized, u but it is the Creator
who has done it, not poor, finite human be
ings. God sectionnlized Florida when he
laid down one portion several hundred miles
nearer to the equator than the other, just
as lie has sectionalized Southern and North
ern California, New York and the Hudson
Bay territory.
What is it that the settler from the North
and West seeks in coming to Florida for a
home? Health, tropical and semi-tropical
fruits and a warm.winter climate.
Well, the Northern parts of the State can
give him health, no doubt, and a far milder
winter than he has left behind him, but no
tropical fruits, and a very few semi-tropical
Antelope* of Africa.
The transition from the gazelle to the heav
ier species of the antelope family is not im-
mediate', but between them, and partaking
of the qualities of both, are the cow ante
lopes, a group having in turn its own sub
divisions. These have some leading charac
teristics in common. They are tall, strongly
built, with high withers, a sloping back,
long and wide-snouted head and a short
neck. The colored antelope, which is a
member of this group, stands about four
feet high, with a length of five feet or more,
not including the tail, which is some eigh
teen inches long. The horns are black and
about sixteen inches high, and are first bent
outward, then backward and upward. The
color of the animal, as its name partially
GROUP OF AFRICAN ANTELOPES.
indicates, is marked and variegated. The
sides of the head, the neck, the back and
sides of the body are purple or reddish
brown. The ears, the hind-cheeks, and the
under side of the body are white, while the
upper parts of the thigh are black and the
tail white with a black tip. A conspicuous
feature of the animal is the “blaze” which
beginning between the horns descend and
overspread the forehead and almost the
whole face. A smaller variety of this spe
cies, in which this peculiarity is strongly
marked, has received on that account the
name of “blaze antelope." In the interior
and western part of Africa is found the
Senegal antelope, specially characterized by
its short, knobby and slightly curved horns,
set close together at the roots, diverging at
the middle, and again nearly meeting at
the points. Its prevailing color is gray. In
ize it nearly approaches the moose, its body
always preferring the desert regions with
standing waters. In such localities, where
they are seldom molested by civilized
huntsmen, they may be seen in droves,
licking the salt out of the dried sloughs,
and among them are occasionally a few os
triches, the two races fraternizing on the
most amiable terms. From Capeland, where
antelopes were formerly numerous, they
have been made objects of chase by the
farmers to such an extent that they are now
nearly exterminated. The Senegal antelope
inhabits the interior parts of Africa, be
tween the Kir and Djur rivers. In the wet
season it resorts to the dry, open cattle-
ranges, the drove usually numbering from
ten to thirty head, and seeking their pastur
age in the broad meadows among the ter
mite-hills, whose proximity does not prevent
them from finding an ample subsistence.
They are fine specimens of theanimal world.
Middle, and all of South Florida. The great
central lake region, of which lakes Santa Fe,
Kingsley, Geneva and Orange, are the largest
of the group; the great lake region of South
Florida, of which lakes Griffin, Harris and
Eustis lying close together and connected
by the Ocklawaha and Dead Rivers, are the
central points; the St. John's River region,
the Indian River region, and the country
around Tampa and Manatee—these are the
chief objective points towards which the
eyes of thousands of “Florida fever" patients
are wistfully turning; and mark well the
fact that they are nearly all in South
Florida.
There has been a great deal written and
said by the. people of West Florida and the
northern parts of East and Middle Florida,
in complaint of what they call “ sectionaliz-
ing” the State, namely: holding up the
more southern portions at the expense of
and these with the everpressing danger of
being killed "root and branch " by the fre
quent winter frosts and icy nights; having
said this, we need not say much on the warm
winter question.
These papers are written in the interest of
the settlers who comes to Florida, as nine
out of every ten do come, seeking a warm
climate and the tender fruits belonging to
it. Therefore, without the least wish to
divert attention from other divisions of the
State, it is our duty to point significantly to
the more southern sections, where alone
these objects can be fully attained.
Still, to those who seek only mild, not
constantly warm winters, and other occupa
tions than tropical fruit-growing, the more
northern portions of Florida are very at
tractive.
Let us take Leon county as a type of the
rest and see how it is there.