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| Front: One of the sinks on Paines Prairie, showing the remains
of old steamer, Gainesville, Fla.
Reverse: This Prairie was a few years ago a Lake about 18 miles square, through an explosion which blew bottom out of a pond, the entire Lake drained down, leaving the Steamers stranded, one of which is shown in this View. These drains are called Sink Holes. [The artist James Calvert Smith sketched a picture of one such launch, noting in his account Micanopy that it lay abandoned in an arm of Payne's Prairie just south of Gainesville]. |
| Scanning of this photo was funded by the E. Ashby Hammond Memorial Fund. |
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