x PREFACE.

 But to-day, no one is left behind;
 every one has been everywhere and
 seen everything, so that information is
 as unnecessary as it is tiresome. Indeed,
 the Author who under any amiable dis-
 guise might venture to instruct, would be
 instantly detected as an encumbrance,-
 named occasionally in a less dignified
 manner, and when not received with
 compassionate amusement (or ignored)
 would find his well-meaning volume
 labelled Guide-book," and thrust upon
 the dusty upper shelf of a book-shop.
 Instruction, like an unused garment, has
 become old-fashioned, and fallen into
 wrinkles and decay. All is' said, and
there is nothing new under the sun!
 This admitted, what has the preface of
a book upon Florida to say? Only that
Artist and Author have no such threadbare
motive as information to excuse or to