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to Sawpit Creok, at the mouth of wliich there is a 

 black buoy not laid down on the chart. Keei^ to 

 the southward of this buoy and run on through Gun- 

 nison's Cut, wliich you will recognize by two pal- 

 metto trees that look like gate-posts at a distance. 

 Down Fort George River to the Sisters Creek and 

 thence to the St. John's River where you will find a 

 dock — a watermark not to be forgotten on your re- 

 turn trip. There are three charts of the St. John's, 

 which give it in full from its mouth to Lake Har- 

 ney ; the 23oints to remember are to cross from Han- 

 nah Mills Creek to St. John's Bluff, and thence 

 back again to Clapboard Creek, whence you follow 

 up the north shore, keeping it as far as Dame Point 

 close aboard. Beyond this you can have no trouble, 

 as the St. John's has but one or two shoals where 

 there is less than six feet of water, and it is well 

 marked out with buoys and beacons. 



If this description sounds a little tedious to the 

 reader, he will not think it so wlien he makes the 

 trip. If you want a pilot for any part of the route, 

 one can be had by applying to Captain Coste, of the 

 Lighthouse Service at Charleston ; but there are few 

 persons who know w'hatl have herein recorded, and 



none of those will tell. We have had a long trip 



for long as it has been on paper, it has been longer 

 in reality. Two weeks from New York to Beaufort, 

 N. C. ; ten days thence to Charleston, and ten more 

 to Jacksonville may be required, unless the traveller 

 is one of those lucky fellows wdio always have a free 

 wind through life. So he may want to rest, have 



