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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 965 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OCALA (a See also:Seminole word for See also:green or fertile See also:land)  , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Marion county, See also:Florida, U.S.A., in the N. central See also:part of the See also:state, about too m . S.W. of See also:Jacksonville . Pop . (1900) 338o, (19o5) 4493, of whom 2467 were negroes, (1910) 4370 . It is served by the Seabord See also:Air See also:Line and the See also:Atlantic See also:Coast Line See also:railways . About 6 m . E. is See also:Silver See also:Spring, the largest and best known of the springs of Florida . Its See also:basin is circular, about 600 ft. in See also:diameter; it is about 65 ft. in See also:depth, and its See also:waters are remarkable for their transparency and refractive See also:powers . According to the estimate of Dr D . G . See also:Brinton, the spring discharges more than 300;000,000 gallons of See also:water daily, its outflow forming what is known as Silver Spring Run, 9 M. See also:long, emptying into the Oklawaha See also:river and navigable by small river steamers . For the drainage and See also:sewerage of the city a subterranean river whose source and mouth are unknown is utilized .

The city is the seat of the See also:

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

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