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Thus it is that the investigations of science only reveal the match- 

 less wisdom of the Creator, and shew that He has provided for every 

 necessity of life just that which will best supply the need. 



EECOLLECTIONS OF A RECENT JOURNEY SOUTH. 



BY WM. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. 

 (Continued from imge 112. ) 



On rising from our sleeping berths on the morning of the 30th of 

 November we found ourselves nearing Brunswick, a quiet town at the 

 southern extremity of Georgia. This night journey had brought us ta 

 a point where the character of the vegetation had greatly changed. 

 A dwarf-growing palm, known as the Saw Palmetto, Sdbal sen'ulata, 

 had replaced the common weeds and ferns of the day previous, and 

 gave quite a new and tropical character to the landscape, while many 

 of the trees began to be festooned with that beautiful plant known as. 

 Florida Moss, Tillandsia usneoides, a characteristic southern plant 

 belonging to the Pine Apple family, but so closely resembling a long 

 drooping moss as to have received everywhere the name of " Long 

 Moss" or ■ " Florida Moss. " It is an epiphyte or air plant, which 

 attaches itself to the bark of the trees by a slender filament, from which 

 it grows long in luxuriant hanging tufts sometimes a yard or more 

 in length, drawing its nourishment from the surrounding atmosphere. 

 The forests are composed almost entirely of the large leaved Yellow 

 Pine, Pinus atistralis, valuable for the production of turpentine and 

 rosin, and also the source of the great lumber supply of this district. 



We arrived in Brunswick in time to take the boat on the inland 

 route for Florida at 7 a.m. We were soon pursuing a tortuous course 

 among the low lands, covered with reeds and rushes, backed by higher 

 islands. Passing Jackel's Island, we get a glimpse of tlie open ocean, 

 which was soon again hidden from view by the larger Cumberland 

 Island, which is twenty miles long, and a famous hunting ground, 

 where deer are plentiful and wild fowl abound. It is wooded chiefly 

 with pine. The day was warm, but the sea breeze and the novel 

 scenery about us made it most enjoyable. There were thousands and 

 tens of thousands of ducks flying about in flqpks over the sea marshes; 

 grey and white cranes, turkey buzzards, and many other birds, helped 



