138 THE EXVIROXS OF TALLAHASSEE. 



ming in a lake of ice-cold water. Terrifically they 

 &quot;trumpeted,&quot; and frantically they strove to clamber 

 out upon the bank but the steep sides afforded no 

 foot-hold until benumbed and overcome with the cold, 

 and feebly struggling, they sank, with their trunks lov 

 ingly entwined, to rise no more. As my fair informant 

 remarked : &quot; lovingly they had spent their lives together, 

 and in death they were not divided.&quot; The bones of the 

 ill-fated pair remained long at the bottom of the spring 

 a memento of their fidelity and their fate. Some 

 years ago, some enterprising individuals succeeded in 

 getting out their skeletons, which were large and per 

 fect, and shipped them to Kew York. The vessel was 

 wrecked during the voyage and they were lost.* 



The country around Tallahassee is attractive and 

 beautifully undulating. There are many fine views, and 

 pleasant drives in almost any direction. All the varieties 

 of forest vegetation peculiar to the country are abun 

 dant. The superb magnolia, with its glossy deep-green 

 leaves and large cream-white flowers, the bay-tree, the 

 live-oak, so famed for ship timber, the scarlet oak, the 

 sweet gum, the sycamore, the long-leaved pine, the ca- 

 talpa, the hickory, the beech, the wild plum and crab- 

 apple, of size almost incredible until seen ; the dogwood, 

 whose large white flowers, and berries of vivid scarlet, 

 far exceed in size those of its northern compeer ; grape, 

 and other vines of every variety and size ; the yellow 

 jessamine, which climbs the trees and overspreads their 

 tops with its clusters, and hangs in graceful festoons 

 from every branch, in a wealth of floral profusion which 



* Chas. Lanman, Esq., in his &quot; Wilds of America,&quot; says that 

 the bones referred to were sent to Philadelphia by Qeo. S. King, 

 of Florida, and deposited in the museum there. ED. 



