Ob THREE MONTHS IX FLORIDA 



sands more who would bo but too glad to avail themselves 

 of the advantages accruing from the winter s stay there, 

 could they but afford it. Consumption is so insidious 

 in its approach that its victim is lulled by a fatal sense 

 of security to postpone the day of departure until too 

 late, and he departs only for the shadowy land. Any 

 well-informed physician can prognosticate the result at a 

 sufficiently early stage of the disease to warn the patient, 

 and then then only, is the time to profit by the knowl 

 edge, and leave a place of death for a country of health. 



To those who are suffering, who are hesitating, dread 

 ing the annoyance and expense incident to a voyage to 

 Florida ; feeling that they would rather face the certain 

 dangers of another winter at the North, I address myself. 

 To another class of citizens the information to be given 

 here will not come amiss to those who, though in good 

 health and strength, have unsatisfied longings for the 

 game region of the South. It cannot be denied that many 

 sportsmen suffer from a plentiful lack of money, and any 

 suggestion tending to furnish a moderate supply of game 

 at slight expenditure will be acceptable. To them, then, 

 as well as to the invalid, the following notes may be of 

 service ; though in fact, as may be expected, the invalid 

 will drop his role of sick man and assume that of sports 

 man, at an early period of his stay in a land whose cli 

 mate is so gloriously rejuvenating as that of Florida. 



To fulfil the expectations aroused by my announce 

 ment at the head of this paper to treat one to a thrce- 

 montlis trip to Florida for a hundred dollars, I must 

 assume that the tourist be tolerably strong, and able to en 

 dure a sea voyage in a sailing vessel. Fifteen dollars will 

 cover the cost of a &quot; cabin &quot; passage from New York to 

 Jacksonville, in Florida. Fifteen dollars and two weeks 



