The central region is remarkable for its large number of lakes, approximately 30,000 between Gainesville in Alachua county, and Lake Okeechobee.

wide and extending from Tallahassee to Lake Okeechobee.

On the 25th of December 1837, after a difficult campaign, he inflicted a severe defeat upon the Indians at the battle of Okeechobee, and for this was breveted brigadier-general.

By far the largest of these lakes, nearly all of them shallow, is Lake Okeechobee, a body of water about 1250 sq.