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of one of the primitive passenger-cars of the Long Island Railroad 
se. 
stle 
of the hammocks and the river-swamps along the 
way, aside from other natural features, was alone worth the trip. 
The shrubs and trees had put out their new and fresh foliage, and 
the shades and masses of green were indescribably beautiful. 
The low and a te pine woods were conspicuous with a wealth 
of flow 
ico a is an isolated town. It lies at the mouth of the 
iv 
towns on the coast are each about twenty-five miles distant, one 
to the east, the other to the west. The town is situated on a 
dune-like ridge built up mainly of sand and of oyster-shells. In 
the earlier half of the last ee it ranked third among the 
ports of o ulf coast. This one-time ean of the town 
was ee the primary reason vs my visi 
Thomas Drummond, who had been assistant as on 
second Land Arctic Expedition under Sir John Franklin and h 
collected extensively in Canada, after making ee in 
Texas started for further work in Cuba. He peas sailed 
was Drum s intention to return from Cuba to explore 
Florida, but he died at Havana in March, 1835, not many weeks 
after his arrival ther 
1841 obert ee after describing Opuntia Drummond- 
not Plants of the species now described 
t 
r. Neill, Canonmills, from rummond, in 1835. They 
were gathered by him in eee and flowered with Dr. 
* The Botanist, 5: pl. 246. 
