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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Florida improvements. (search)
hich he is now executing, is a State work. It is situated in Volusia county, Florida, in latitude 28½. It is an open drain, twelve and a half miles long, fourteen feet wide at the bottom, with slopes of about one to one.--The depth of cutting at the ends is about seven feet, with a gradual rise to the summit, where the depth of cutting will be about twenty-five feet. It is intended to connect the waters of the St. Johns and Indian River, commencing on the St. Johns at Lake Harney or Deep Creek, and running due east. The first three miles is prairie, the balance is scattering yellow pine, small saw palmetto, and prairie, alternately, without any undergrowth. The canal crosses one cypress swamp, about three or four hundred yards across. In this there is two or three feet of water; also two other patches of cypress, where the water stands during the wet season. Test pits have been dug, which shows the nature of the materials to be mostly sand, or sandy loam. All of