Cedar Keys 



habits, frequently coming like robins to door- 

 sills for crumbs a noble fellow, beloved by 

 everybody. Wild geese are abundant in winter, 

 associated with brant, some species of which 

 I have never seen in the North. Also great 

 flocks of robins, mourning doves, bluebirds, 

 and the delightful brown thrashers. A large 

 number of the smaller birds are fine singers. 

 Crows, too, are here, some of them cawing with 

 a foreign accent. The common bob-white quail 

 I observed as far south as middle Georgia. 



Lime Key, sketched on the opposite page, is 

 a fair specimen of the Florida keys on this part 

 of the coast. A fragment of cactus, Opuntia, 

 sketched on another page, 1 is from the above- 

 named key, and is abundant there. The fruit, 

 an inch in length, is gathered, and made into 

 a sauce, of which some people are fond. This 

 species forms thorny, impenetrable thickets. 

 One joint that I measured was fifteen inches 

 long. 



The mainland of Florida is less salubrious 



1 Of the original journal. 



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