FLORIDA.


mostly roomy and
deners were at tl
riety and excellent
 The sun was a
the bay into the (
riant vegetation, t
the tropical-appeal
poises disporting i
ters of the Gulf, a]


neat-looking houses, and several gar-
e wharf with vegetables of large va-
Juality.
tting brilliantly as we passed out of
ulf; and the islands with their luxu-
e solitary, tall, white lighthouse, and
ng bar on which it stands, the por-
all directions, and the deep-blue wa-
made a scene beautiful to behold and


long to be remembered.
 At sunrise the next morning we were entering the
lovely harbor of Cedar Keys, passing near a number of
pretty islands, among them Atsenna Otie Island, where
there is a large saw-mill and machine-shop owned by
Faber Brothers, of New York, giving employment to a
colony of thirty families, mostly Germans, engaged in
cutting and preparing the cedar-wood for the famous
Faber lead-pencils. At the wharves of the little seaport


and railroad terminus we
numerous sailing-vessels, gi
commercial enterprise.
 The Doctor, Professor
of the Agricultural Burea
had met on the steamer),


found five large steamers and
ring it quite an appearance of

J. N. Comstock entomologistt
u at Washington, whom we
and I, enjoyed the day stroll-


ing about the streets and limited suburbs,
curious shell-mound-quite a hill, composed


all kinds,
scientific
acted by a
o resorted
ers a super
el, for the
ovation, is
ng visible.


such as are found
supposition that


race
here
b pof
scene
beaul
 W


along that
this strange


of prehistoric dwellers
 to feast on oysters, 4
sition onowhich to build
in all directions, as vie
tiful, the whole harbor
e met my old friend


visiting the
of sea-shells
coast. It is
mound was
i this region,
ams, etc. It
Large winter


wed from that
and the Gulf
Major Parsons


here, and had a very agreeable visit and a tramp about the


of
the
ere
wh
off
hot
hoi
ele
bei