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====Fountain of Youth==== {{main|Fountain of Youth}} According to a popular legend, Ponce de León discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. Though stories of vitality-restoring waters were known on both sides of the Atlantic long before Ponce de León, the story of his searching for them was not attached to him until after his death. In his ''Historia general y natural de las Indias'' of 1535, [[Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés]] wrote that Ponce de León was looking for the waters of ''Bimini''.{{sfn|Oviedo|1851|p=482}} A similar account appears in [[Francisco López de Gómara]]'s ''Historia general de las Indias'' of 1551.<ref>Francisco López de Gómara. ''Historia General de las Indias'', second part.</ref> Then in 1575, [[Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda]], a shipwreck survivor who had lived with the Native Americans of Florida for 17 years, published his memoir in which he locates the waters called the River Jordan (flowing out of Eden) in Florida,<ref name="Gruman2003">{{cite book |last1=Gruman |first1=Gerald Joseph |title=A History of Ideas About the Prolongation of Life |year=2003 |publisher=Springer Publishing Company |isbn=978-0-8261-1875-2 |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1NllD8F_dfcC&pg=PA35 |quote=Juan Ponz [''sic''] de León... went from Florida in search of the River Jordan... that he might become young from bathing in such a stream.}}</ref> and says that Ponce de León was supposed to have looked for them there.<ref>[http://www.keyshistory.org/Fontenada.html "Fontaneda's Memoir"]. Translation by Buckingham Smith, 1854. From keyshistory.org. Retrieved 28 March 2007.</ref> Though Fontaneda doubted that Ponce de León had really gone to Florida looking for the waters, the account was included in the ''Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos'' of [[Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas]] of 1615. Most historians hold that the search for [[gold]] and the expansion of the [[Spanish Empire]] were far more imperative than any potential search for such a fountain.<ref name="Douglas">{{cite book|author=Douglas, Marjory Stoneman|year=1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPjDLXqemQ0C&q=Did+Juan+Ponce+de+Le%C3%B3n+actually+land+in+Florida%3F&pg=PA99|title=The Everglades: River of Grass|publisher=[[Pineapple Press]]|access-date=30 March 2008|isbn=9781561641352}}</ref><ref name="Sauer1975">{{cite book|author=Carl Ortwin Sauer|title=Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the People as Seen by the Europeans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EWXU6sjN9ZUC&pg=PA26|year=1975|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-02777-0|page=26}}</ref>
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