ON THE UPPER ST. JOHN'S. 



THE city of Sanford is a beautiful and 

 interesting place, I hope, to those who live 

 in it. To the Florida tourist it is important 

 as lying at the head of steamboat navigation 

 on the St. John's River, which here expands 

 into a lake Lake Monroe some five 

 miles in width, with Sanford on one side, 

 and Enterprise on the other ; or, as a wag- 

 gish traveler once expressed it, with Enter- 

 prise on the north, and Sanford and enter- 

 prise on the south. 



Walking naturalists and lovers of things 

 natural have their own point of view, indi- 

 vidual, unconventional, whimsical, if you 

 please, very different, at all events, from 

 that of clearer-witted and more serious- 

 minded men ; and the inhabitants of San- 

 ford will doubtless take it as a compliment, 

 and be amused rather than annoyed, when I 

 confess that I found their city a discourage- 

 ment, a widespread desolation of houses and 

 shops. If there is a pleasant country road 



