TOUR


OF THE STA TE.


man from Georgia, with a Yankee wife, who entertained
us hospitably, and showed us his thrifty young orange-


grove and cane-field. After an excelle
Sharpe and Dr. Holmes, an Ohio gentle]


here, joined our
put on board


party; and, a bushel
we continued on our


Rock Ledge' late in the after
teresting day. Here we landed
proffered hospitalities of Mr. A.
several years ago from Mississ
found it, and in this charming


fine ho
zealous
all too
fields,
ural m
there.
on his
watchil
glitter
strain a


oon of
and ace
L- Hatc


nt dinner, Captain
man, now residing
of oranges being
journey, reaching
a wonderfully in-
epted the warmly
h. He came here


ippi, in search of health,
spot is rapidly creating a


me. He is an enthusiast about Florida, and is a
student of the culture of fruits and flowers. We
k an extensive stroll over his lawns gardens, and
and it was like a visit to a botanical or horticult-
useum, so great is the variety of plants growing
An evening long to be remembered was enjoyed
veranda; smoking, hearing of tropical Florida, and
ng the full moon rising across the waters, that
ed like silver, while the intervening lawn showed
1dv with aloes (or centurv-Dlants)i nalmettoes. oaks


... ..0 --U ... .
festooned with gray mosses,
 Rock Ledge is twenty
two and a half from Lake
River steamers are taken, a
sonville, four hundred and
one hundred and sixty ox
steamers are the diminutiv


 /, .-
 and multitudinous flowers.
 miles south of Titusville, and
 Winder, where the St. John's
md freight is shipped to Jack-
twenty-three miles distant, or
1 an air-line. Of course the
e kind, such as I have before


described.
 From Rock Ledge to New York is about seventy hours'
travel. The place derives its name from a formation of
coquina-rock along the shore there, and is a very pleas-
ant locality, with a good class of settlers, some forty in
all. But I think they have placed the price of their lands
too high. One hundred dollars per acre for a site on the