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whereabouts a secret, for it is known to but few 

 people. 



The great Cuthbert rookery, which I have also 

 visited, and which is situated in the almost unap- 

 proachable depths of the cypress swamp that sur- 

 rounds the Everglades, is, probably, the largest 

 of the better known rookeries ; but it does not 

 approach, either in the number of the individuals 

 or of the species of birds which it contains, the 

 one of which I speak. 



