town with him. His reminiscent
ing back over a period of forty
here from the North, a clerk in
apartment of the United States 2
Z. Taylor, are very interesting.
the Doctor dQzed, Professor Co
to the beach, where the tide was
 a.


pulling out
line all the
repletion on
 Cedar K
mercantile


and
from
river
little,
trade


evident
the so
 that
 if any
 is sole


es of Cedar Keys, extend-
years since he first came
the Quartermaster's De-
Army, under old General
 In the afternoon, while
stock and I went down
s out, and busied ourselves


oysters from the great quantities that solidly
shores of the bay, and feasting ourselves to
that luscious bihalve.
eys is a port of entry, and has several large
establishments, all carrying extensive stocks,
ly prosperous. Their patronage is derived
settlers all along the coast and many goodly
empty into the Gulf there. There is very
, good land on the adjacent mainland. The
ly the result of its railroad and shipping ad-


vantages. The buildings are mostly
substantial coquina-stone, and, with i
fact, there is only one street in the
shells, all white mortary in appearance,
an old Spanish seaport.
 Early on the morning after our arri


on our
handsome
Transit


ated
crosse
ville,
busy,
given
pretty
care,


an
s t
W


constructed of the
ts main street (in
place) paved with
it much resembles


rival, we were again


travels-the final stage-seated in one of the
e coaches of the Atlantic, Gulf and West India
Company Railroad, better known in its abbrevi-
d more convenient form of the "Transit," that
be State from Cedar Keys to Fernandina. Gaines-
aldo, Santa F6, Starke, and Lawtey, all thrifty,


growing, enterprising places, of which a<
elsewhere, were passed. Waldo is an
place, and the inhabitants show much
of which they may well feel proud, and


they deserve much credit. Near the depot is
tie park, fenced nicely; the grounds all about


accounts are
especially
taste and
for which
a neat lit-
the pretty


TOUR


OF THE STATE.