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A NATURE WOOING. 



cows, the bovin-es thus furnishing both flesh and milk 

 for the family meal. Another passenger asserts that 

 "The Lord made the earth in six days, and, when 

 Florida was but half finished, rested on the seventh. 

 He then forgot to complete his work." One can not 



vouch for the accuracy of 

 either statement. 



Turning a sharp bend, 

 we surprise a bald eagle 

 with plumage worn and 

 soiled, sitting with a half 

 dozen carrion crows on 

 some limbs near a fisher- 

 man's hut. The waters 

 displaced by the boat 

 move in immense waves 

 rapidly shoreward and 



dash with force against the banks, swamping several 

 rowboats there moored. 



Just above the J., T. & K. W. Railway bridge the 

 river, whose course is here almost due east, expands 

 into Lake Monroe, a fine body of water, about six 

 miles in length by four in breadth. On the right, or 

 south shore is Sanford, a typical southern town of 

 2,100 population; while on the left or northern shore 

 is Enterprise, a rival though smaller place. Before 

 the 1895 freeze, which killed all the orange groves of 

 this region, Sanford was more prosperous than now. 

 This freeze disheartened for a time the citizens of 



Fig. 63 Bald Eagle. 



