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The following day which could have been used to advantage 
devoted to watching a steady and heavy rain, the edge of the 
storm that so seriously devastated parts of Georgia and Alabama 
on the same day. 
ening we set out for the Gulf coast with quite different 
oc 
hapman, for over sixty years a resident of that part of Florida, 
wrote to Doctor Torrey from Quincy in 1840, as follows: 
u will recollect that I am on the frontier and the Indians 
t id the 
hold undisturbed possession of th y between me an 
! meda rhomboidialis and Rhododendron punc- 
tatu w there, but it is as as my neck is worth to 
ve do Ithough parts of this county have bee 
ettlad si 1825 ae no white perso a te pag ee has 
ever Shades that nown regio n imagine my 
anxi o plant the: ene of F ae in ale. eae t of those 
Two oe later he wrote from Rocky Comfort near Quincy 
the follow! 
“Last summer I went down into the lower part a this county 
to get some of the Rhodendron punctatum. The whole country 
is a perfect wilderness pilaty deep swamps and dry sand a 
lternate rode to on 
ho I am. 
pale ae in eolleciae: Slants oar in a climate so suley, northern 
