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Road Cut Through Coral. 



one of the cuts made in the coral to secure a graded road. the side of such cuts are frequently 



covered with beautiful maiden hair fern. 



of many forms of strange vegetation, 

 for due to the Gulf Stream's effect upon 

 the climate and the importations made 

 by the early colonizers, there flourishes, 

 transplanted from Europe, Africa and 

 the West Indies, a multitudinous variety 



of palm, cacti and flowering shrubs, 

 luxuriantly fresh and green, continually 

 watered by the soft mists of midocean 

 and forced to constant growth by the 

 ever breaking radiance of a semi- 

 tropical sun. Going from New York 



