THE INDIAN RIVER REGION.


flourish the year round. The natural growth of the ham-
mock is the sturdy live-oak, measuring from two to six feet
in diameter; the stately hickory, two to three feet in diame-
ter, and twenty to forty feet to the first limbs; the red elm,
mulberry, wahoo, cabbage-palmetto, with an undergrowth
of hack-bush, torch-wood, marl-bush and vines. There are
also the iron-wood and crab-wood, approximating in weight
to the lignum-vitte, and susceptible of the finest polish.
 There are numerous springs of good water just under
the bluff, and by sinking wells twelve to sixteen feet wa-
ter is obtained almost anywhere. The water in the ham-
mocks is more or less impregnated with lime, there being a
stratum of coquina-rock underlying the surface, forming
an inexhaustible supply of the most valuable fertilizer. The
woods abound in small game and in deer, bears, and an occa-
sional panther, with the most superior range for every kind
of stock. Four-year-old steers weigh from four to five


hundred pounds, two-year
and fifty to three hundred
age. Hogs are raised, with
hundred and fifty to two h
 The labor of one ms
lished, may make his thous
portation. By referring t
ceived that a canal eifrht


-old heifers from two hundred
pounds, and they calve at that
but little attention, to weigh one


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ands.


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Halifax and Mantanzas Rivers;
Haulover, between Halifax and
connection with St. Augustine.
draught steamers plying through
of over two hundred miles, co


d pounds at two years old.
hen once properly estab-
 The great need is tran-
 State map, it will be per-
Sin length will connect the
then a little work upon the
Indian Rivers, puts it in
 So that a line of light-
nh these rivers, a distance
Inectingr at St. Auffustine


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with large-class steamers outside, and by railroad to


Jackson-


ville, gives a direct communication with the world. It will
also attract the trade and develop an extensive section of
country, the Kissimmee, that is now lying almost in obscu-
rity. It needs an outlet or pass from opposite the mouth of