OCALA (a

See also:

• SEMINOLE
• SEMINOLE (properly Simanoli, " renegade," " runaway," in allusion to their secession from the Creek confederacy)

Seminole word for

See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green or fertile

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• LAND

land)  , a city and the county-seat of Marion county, Florida, U.S.A., in the N. central part of the state, about too m . S.W. of Jacksonville . Pop . (1900) 338o, (19o5) 4493, of whom 2467 were negroes, (1910) 4370 . It is served by the Seabord Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line railways . About 6 m . E. is Silver Spring, the largest and best known of the springs of Florida . Its basin is circular, about 600 ft. in diameter; it is about 65 ft. in depth, and its waters are remarkable for their transparency and refractive powers . According to the estimate of Dr D . G . Brinton, the spring discharges more than 300;000,000 gallons of water daily, its outflow forming what is known as Silver Spring Run, 9 M. long, emptying into the Oklawaha river and navigable by small river steamers . For the drainage and sewerage of the city a subterranean river whose source and mouth are unknown is utilized .

The city is the seat of the

Emerson Memorial and Industrial Home (Methodist Episcopal) for negro girls . Ocala was settled in 1845, but its development dates from 188o, when it was first chartered as a city .