212 A NATURE WOOING. 



town is of small size, and is noted only as being one of 

 the terminals of the St. John's & Lake Eustice Rail- 

 way. 



Volusia, the next stop, is almost across the river. 

 It was once the county seat of the county of the same 

 name, but it is now an almost deserted place. A 

 climbing rose bush, in the full glory of its blossoming 

 tide is the most conspicuous object. The boat 

 stops here long enough to allow a grocer to count 

 out twenty dozen eggs, which he wishes to send to 

 Jacksonville. 



A half hour after leaving Volusia we enter Lake 

 George through a dredged channel a quarter of a 

 mile in length. Piles are sunk on each side of this 

 channel to retard as much as possible its filling with 

 the debris brought down by the river. This lake is 

 the largest expansion of this remarkable stream. It 

 is a pleasing body of water, thirteen miles in length 

 from north to south, and about nine miles in greatest 

 width. Before we reach the outlet at the northern 

 end the shades of the coming night envelop us and 

 our day on the upper St. John's is at an end. 



