FLORIDA (Fanning's, 1853)
Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853) : 124-126.
FLORIDA, (so called by Juan Ponce de Leon, in 1812, from having discovered the coast on Pascua Florida, the name, in Spanish, for Easter,) the most southern state in the union, lies between 25° and 31 north latitude, and 80°and 87° west longitude, from Greenwich; and is bounded north by Alabama and Georgia, east by the Atlantic, south by the Gulf of Mexico, and west by the gulf of Mexico and Alabama. Its superficial area is 59,000 square miles, of which but about one half is yet surveyed and occupied.