I have a book in my library entitled "THAT VANISHING EDEN, A Naturalist's Florida" by Thomas Barbour.
In the introduction, he states:
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My book is purely for the casual visitor seeking relaxation who wonders what the country was like before it was reduced to the condition in which he sees it today.
A large part of Florida is now so devastated that many of her friends are disinclined to believe that she ever could have been the Paradise which I know once existed.
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That book was published in 1944.