Excerpt from The Commercial Review of the South and West, 1848, Vol. 5 It is presumable, therefore from the known inertness of the Spa ish character, and the slight progress made by them in the settlement of new countries, that their settlement of Florida was very limited in extent, and that with the exception of establishin a few mission houses, they never ventured far from the coast, and paid but little attention to the tillage of the soil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.