JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY
 DE LAND FLA.




 Miami, Fla., April 28, 1912.



 Mr. W. L. Larkin,
 Miami, Fla.
 Friend Larkin:
 Think of itl We went through the Everglades in three
 days from Fort Myers up the Caloosahatchie, across Lake
 Okeechobee, and down the drainage canals to Fort Lauderdale.
 The Everglades of the old geographies are a myth. The genius
 of man has conquered them. Every mile of the journey brought
 new surprises.
 The soil is the richest I have ever seen. The most
 luxuriant crops are growing on it. An area bigger than
 'Connecticut and Rhode Island together, once a vast submerged
 prairie, is hereafter to be a garden of paradise. Seeing
 is believing. Governor Jennings, Governor Broward, and
 others, have done the seemingly impossible. It is a great
 triumph of faith. "And if ye have faith as a grain of
 mustard seed ye shall say to this mountain, be thou cast
 aside into the sea; and it shall be done." Faith has
 turned the waters off the 'glades into the sea.
 Yours very truly,
 LINCOLN HULLY, Ph.D., LITT.D., LL.D.,
_a President.


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