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w Smyrna is Hue ona ee shelly ae oe midden], 
en miles above the an to} i hi a thirty 
miles North of Cape Canaveral, L s re about 
nm years ag veyor r r precincts of 
the colony, where there was neither habitation nor cleared field 
t was then a range grove, upper or So TO- 
ontory ridge, nearly half a mile wide, and stretching North 
about forty miles, to the h of the North bran the Mus- 
quito, to w Tomoko river unites with it, nearly parallel 
o the sea coast, ot above t iles acr the se 
beach. All this ridge was then one entire orange grove, with 
ive oaks, magnolias, palms, red bays, and others: I observed 
then, near wher myma now stands, a spacious India: 
mount aaa whi ood near the banks of the river 
the avenue ran on a strait line back, through the groves, across 
. ridge, an erence at the verge of natural savannas and 
onds. 
Pe accuracy of William Bartram’ s reference to the existence 
of large orange-groves in that is sometimes questioned. 
pondence of William Baldwin written fifty years later, for 
example: 
“The evening proving squally, we were unable to recross 
Matanza river; and took up our abode for the night, in the 
ancient and ve venerable fabric erected by the old Fish, who was 
the original proprietor of the Island. He was a native of Flat- 
ush, in tl tate of New York, and made improvements which 
have hardly been exceeded i y part e Province. Here 
are the remains of per! the most celebrated Orange Grove 
in the wi . Some trees oe remain that are 30 feet in ee — 
and still retain a portion of their Sere ie ut all is now 
in ee ‘wo generations have passe 
ms 
this plantation we again took of nee tacks on board, 
and ed this (Tomoko) river on the evening of the third 
ay,—s50 miles southerly of St. Augustine. The land, I find, 
tility a: 
, 
1 William Bartram, ate through North and South Carolina, Georgia, 
East and West Florida. 14: 1792. 
