REMEDIAL VALUE OF THE CLIMATE OF FLORIDA. 641 



accident, or loss. The immense proportions that the traffic between 

 Europe and the United States is bound to assume within the next fifty 

 years appear to make it almost a necessity that the ocean between the 

 two countries should be as well known as the country between New 

 York and San Francisco, or between Liverpool and London. That this 

 subject has been almost a matter of indifference to the governments in- 

 terested, until very recently, can not be better illustrated than by the 

 fact, almost incredible, but nevei'theless true, that a shoal on the east- 

 ern edge of the Grand Bank, directly in the track of steamers running 

 between the two countries for the greater portion of the year, marked 

 " Ryder Rock, twenty-one feet, position doubtful," was laid down on 

 the charts published by the British Admiralty and United States Hy- 

 drographic Offices, until 1879, in which year the bank was resurveyed, 

 and the shoal found to have had no existence. The United States and 

 British Governments have recently spent thousands of dollars in Arctic 

 explorations and relief expeditions, one of the results of which has 

 been to show how gallantly death can be encountered. Surely, a few 

 thousands would be well expended in the survey of this ocean highway 

 on which thousands of lives are constantly afloat ; and certainly gov- 

 ernment ships might be worse employed than in an attempt to give 

 greater security to life and property on its treacherous surface. 



If the publication of these two articles * should be the means of 

 causing one ship-master to try the southern route, or deter one steamer 

 from ramming into an ice-field on the eastern edge of the Grand 

 Bank, in the spring of the year, the writer will be amply repaid for 

 any time and trouble they may have cost him. 



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REMEDIAL YALUE OF THE CLIMATE OF FLORIDA. 



By GEOEGE E. WALTON, M. D., 



MEMBKE DE LA SOCIETE FEANgAISE d' HYGIENE, PARIS, ETC. 



" Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, 

 "Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine, 



Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, 

 And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ? " 



WHEN one approaches this land, from the northward, in the win- 

 ter season, having left the hills and valleys about his home 

 covered with the cold, white mantle of winter, he is pleased and 

 cheered by the green foliage. The breezes which touch him possess a 

 delicious softness and a fragrant, spicy aroma. When, at the shores 

 of the St. John's River, he looks over miles of clear and unruffled 



* See the first article, in "Harper's Magazine" for August, 1882. 



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