OLD SPANISH CHIMNEYS. 3? 



what smaller than the northern form of the same 

 species. This diminution in size is noticeable in the 

 blue jays, crows, squirrels and many other birds and 

 mammals hereabouts. 



The road led between deserted orange groves, 

 where many thousands of dollars have been lost by 

 unlucky northern investors. The "cracker/' or na- 

 tive of Florida, knows better than to invest time and 

 money in orange groves in this portion \of the State, 

 where King Frost is apt to reign supreme one or 

 more times each winter. The cracker is not averse, 

 however, to selling his cleared hammock lands for fab- 

 ulous prices to the tyro from the north who wishes to 

 set out orange orchards. 



The old Spanish chimneys are much visited by the 

 aristocracy who stop at the great Hotel de Ormond. 

 To them they go in rubber-tired carriages or on horse- 

 back, never afoot. At them they gaze, and marvel 

 o'er these monuments of a dead and misty past. The 

 chimneys are three in number, each about twenty feet 

 in height. One is formed of coquina rock, the other 

 two, of brick. The latter are still connected with the 

 remains of furnaces in which, 200 years ago, the 

 juices of the indigo plant and sugar cane were boiled. 

 The hammock on which they stand was then cleared 

 and doubtless produced bounteous crops. 7 Tis now 

 covered with a dense growth of cabbage palmettos, 

 saplings and underbrush. 



