Re: gizmo
- From: Paul Furman <paul-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:31:48 -0800
tony cooper wrote:
Savageduck wrote:
All very interesting, however from what I recall of Florida, Mt. Dora seems to be something of a misnomer. I was always hardpressed to to find any geo-formation which could be described as a hill or even a "slight rise", let alone a "Mount" anywhere in Florida.
I am probably wrong, but I always had this impression of a vast Florida flatness.
That's the way it is in Florida. Mount Dora was originally named
Royellou, but the name was changed to Mount Dora in 1883. The town
sits beside Lake Dora (after Dora Ann Drawdy, an early homesteader)
and sits at 184 feet above sea level.
Not impressed? Nearby Orlando is only 106 feet above sea level, and
where I live (a suburb of Orlando) I'm at 75 feet above sea level.
Try riding a bicycle from Orlando to the shuffleboard courts in
downtown Mount Dora. The highest point in Florida is a mere 345 feet
above sea level, and it's located almost on the Alabama border. No
need for an oxygen mask, and eggs hard boil quickly in this state.
The Edgehill Mountain in my email is a tiny 100-foot knob off a 600-foot 'mountain' It's only a couple blocks wide though, so very steep.
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Paul Furman
www.edgehill.net
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