FLORIDA.


through a flat or slightly rolling country, timbered with
pine, palmetto, and oak, and it was enlivened by the car
getting off the track two or three times, caused by the
breaking of the old wooden rails. On such occasions the
male passengers would cheerfully assist the very good-
natured conductor to replace the car and hunt up and
lay a fresh rail. All were in good-humor, and seemed to
consider it a part of the business of the trip-a sort of
side-show entertainment. Titusville, eight miles from the
boat-landing on Salt Lake, was reached early in the fore-
noon, and we were at last on the Indian River. The
town, or settlement, is the county-seat of Brevard County,
and has about one hundred and fifty inhabitants. It con-
tains two very neat well-kept hotels (the Lund House and
the Titus House), two or three small stores or shops,
a warehouse, and about fifty dwelling-houses. The land
thereabout is flat, and appears to be rather poor, although
we saw excellent vegetables, and a great abundance of
flowers, growing in the gardens of its vicinity. Across
the river-it is really a sound, for it has no current, and
has a slight tidal action-about a mile wide here, is a strip
of land, and beyond this is the ocean. This strip of land
varies from a half-mile to two miles in width, alternates


in poorest


sand-tracts and richest hammocks,


where the


most prolific crops grow, and is alive with
without much looking, may be found bears,
wild-cats, panthers, and the wily lynx.
 The town with its surroundings is quite
pearance. The Titus Hotel in particular is
may be called the tropical style-a large
with two long wings, all one story high,
sides of a square neatly laid out in a gar
the rooms opening off of the wide veranda
houses in a city block. The table at once


game. Here,
deer, cougars,

tropical in ap-
built- in what
main building
forming three
*den, and with
s like a row of
convinces the


guest


that he


is in a tropical


region, the meats being