David H. Montgomery, The Beginner's American History… (1904)
“ They said that if an old man should bathe in its water, they would make him a boy again. Ponce de Leon 1, a Spanish soldier who was getting gray and wrinkled, set out to find this magic fountain, for he thought that there was more fun in being a boy than in growing old. ”
David H. Montgomery, The Beginner's American History… (1904)
“ Summary.— Ponce de Leon discovered Florida; another Spaniard, named Balboa, discovered the Pacific; still another, named De Soto, discovered the Mississippi. In 1565 the Spaniards began to build St. Augustine in Florida. It is the oldest city built by white men in the United States or, in fact, in all North America. ”
