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who visit it each year in search of health or pleasure. 

 The same scenery continues. In places the land is 

 higher, the long-leaved pines larger, the underbrush 

 of the marshes more cleared away. Where they are 

 loading pine logs on the cars we note that four to 

 eight mules are hitched to a cart, the wheels of which 

 are ten feet in diameter. Suspended from the axle of 

 the cart is a kind of grappling hook or clamp, which 

 clasps the log in its iron embrace. The log is then 

 dragged across the barren and along the roads to the 

 point of loading. 



We arrive at Jacksonville at 9:30 o'clock a. m., 

 an hour late. The railway station is in the outskirts 

 of the city and we see but little of the latter, as we 

 have to hurry on board the train for St. Augustine 

 and the south, which has waited for us. This train 

 belongs to what is known as the Florida East Coast 

 System, which, together with the Plant System, con- 

 trols all the railways of Florida. The main line of 

 the East Coast System extends from Jacksonville to 

 Miami, a distance of 366 miles, the railway lying 

 parallel to and but a mile or two distant from the 

 Atlantic, throughout the greater portion of its length. 



Jacksonville, the metropolis of Florida, and the 

 point to which all tourists are ticketed, is a city of 

 30,000 population, located on the St. John's River, 

 some twenty miles from its mouth. My destination 

 is Ormond, a town on the Atlantic coast, 105 miles 

 below Jacksonville. On the way the railway passes 



