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FLoRIDA.-The following explanation of some of he peculiar which have been used in reference to the Florida affairs, will be found useful 10 our feade.s. They are extracted from a letter to the Editor of the Northampton Courier:

 1.-The Hammock Is an Oasis in the Desert. After travelling over many tedious mile of sterile sand covered with thin growth of the gloomy fir, not a sound to be heard in the dreary wds that which you yourself may cause, you perceiven the distance an Emerald Isle with all the delight of mariner, who after long voyage hears the first cry of the thri ing Land ho As you approach this land of promise, you see spread before you of the most imposing and at the same time beautiful seeues i'll nature uxuant soil extended perhaps for many miles, cover- ed with every variety of the Laurel and other evergreen trees and shrubs and in the midst, towering above them a the stately magnolia grandidora, the surround ing atmosphere redoent with its delicious flowers, con- bined with those of the orange, lemon, and endless others to those add hundred and twenty varieties ofdeeldous forest trees; flowers and plants without nnmber, many that have lived and died for ages past unknown, and you will have, after all, but very faint description Of the magnificent vegetation. of the Ham, mock in East Florida. How can adequately de- scribe the effect of the many beautiful little rls Whch sprnging from the feet of these giants of the forests traverse these favored spots in every direction, and finally lose themselves in the adjacent pine forest The dePosite at the bottom of these is generally per fecy white sand, and the water as pure and mpid as crystal.

 The Ererglddes you inquire about, are immense un fenanted tfaes stretching north and south from Lake George to very near the southern extremity of the Peninsula, sometimes contracting in breadth from east 10 sges til assumes It's greatest dimensions between 27deg and 25 deg. 30 min. In this immense body of waste, composed principally of morass, and covering probably Nor'evey thing is hypothetical that relates to lhis terra incogna,) from to 5000 square miles, lies Lake Mayaca and here also Is he source of the noble river Chailote.-Ihese vast and inaccessible moras- ses have and always will afford safe asylum to fugitive Indians, so long they nhabtthe Peninsula, and they here iis said subsist secure from intrusion up- Oh such game and fish these wlds produce. Ii be- therefore the policy of the Commanders of our army to cut them off from this favore retreat and this they no doubt will endeavor, primary object to e- feet.