Field Notebook: Florida. 1935, 1936
Page 76
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Thursday Feb. 27 -1936 Left Bradenton at 9.16 AM for Lakeland, where we arrived at 11.40 A.M. Put up at the Lakeland Terrace, another of the Collier Hotels, with rates about the same at both places, about four dollars per day American plan. At Macclinton Fla., the Gov. is starting to build a P.O. Here the cella digging is just peculiarly my interest. At the top is a clean worked fine ground sand from 2 to 4 feet thick, resting directly upon a blue-black and in places a gellow-brown oxidized sandy muck replete with plant roots and nothing else. As far as explored this red