Note 87-3 — Chapter III
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Florida was also long supposed to be the site of this wondrous spring, and it is notorious that both Juan Ponce de Leon and De Soto had some lurking hope of discovering it in their expeditions thither. I have examined the myth somewhat at length in Notes on the Floridian Peninsula, its Literary History, Indian Tribes, and Antiquities, pp. 99, 100: Philadelphia, 1859.