AMONG THE FLORIDA KEYS 
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of that conspicuous and striking species, the Great White 
Heron, — the largest heron of North America, a species 
which Audubon here discovered and named, — were perched 
YOUNG GREAT WHITE HERON 
suggestively on the trees. But as the guide was in a hurry 
to get home, we postponed our landing there, and kept on 
toward a point on the distant Florida main, about ten miles 
east of Cape Sable. 
