“ OCALA (a Seminole word for green or fertile land) , a city and the county-seat of Marion county, Florida, U.S.A., in the N. central part of the state, about 100 m. S.W. of Jacksonville. Pop. (1900) 3380, (1905) 4493, of whom 2467 were negroes, (1910) 4370. It is served by the Seabord Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line railways. About 6 m. E. is Silver Spring, the largest and best known of the springs of Florida. Its basin is circular, about 600 ft. in diameter; it is about 65 ft. in depth, and its waters are remarkable for their transparency and refractive powers. ”