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THE river St. John drains the eastern portion of the northern half of the peninsula of Florida, running northward over a flat country for a distance of about 300 miles. In the lower part of its course it opens out into large sheets of water two to three miles in width, and as might be expected from the nature of the country, it frequently shifts its bed, and is liable to annual inundations which place large tracts of the surrounding country under water; indeed it is said that a depression of ten feet would cover the whole of this part of Florida by the sea.
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Florida Shell Mounds 1 . Nature 14, 531–533 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014531a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/014531a0