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errs help. The motor-boat had been towing the house- boat 
bo 
f 
as Fort Lauderdale, where the occupants could replenish their 
stores. 
The North New River canal also was not perfectly nee 
and the low stage of the water in the Everglades enabled us 
locate quite readily the sections of the canal that needed se 
ening. Even after we were in the lake we had considerable dif- 
ficulty in crossing the southern part in order to reach a new col- 
ony at the mouth of Three-mile Canal called (oe We 
selected this tae as the center from which to explore the sur- 
rounding coun and spent several days in the regio 
seen tae i ae of Lake Oe are oaee up of 
amass of decayed vegetable apes oN aturally a dense, almost 
impenetrable, pond-apple h thes the formation around 
the southern half of the lake. This hammock gradually tapers 
off into the prairies of the Everglades. A canal cut directly 
through this deposit of humus connecting Lake eechobee 
River on account of the nhs Bae of sa water. The rich wet 
humus in and about Lake F derful th 
of the aquatic pak of the region, while the higher land was 
covered wth masses a isd are = pes shrubby mallows he 
biscus a ia primr us- 
these were scattered various ae fle nee 
Bron aa beggar’s-ticks (Bidens), while herbaceous vines 
prawled over the ground or clambered over the other vegetation 
eee everywhere 
day was enene collecting through a strip of land for a dis- 
tance of twelve to fifteen miles southeast of Moorehaven 
dry and partly wet. Today it is drained and largely cleared 
