THE ENGLISH ANGLER IN FLORIDA 



FROM ENGLAND TO FLORIDA 



The voyage from Liverpool to New York is, by this time of 

 day, too well known to require elaborate description. The 

 track is a well-beaten ocean highway, and a run across " the 

 herring pond " is seldom of little interest to other than the 

 passenger. Our experience, however, suggests that I ought to 

 remind the reader that if he sails after the middle of March 

 he may expect equinoctial gales. We had them, and obstinate 

 head seas, until the 30th, when we congratulated one another 

 upon our first really fine day ; and the assurances that had 

 been given us of arrival on the ist of April were, as a matter 

 of fact, duly honoured by our bringing up in the river about 



