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With the ordinary style of propeller, a few rods’ ace through 
a patch of the ‘‘weeds”’ is sufficient to stop the e 
Soon after daybreak next morning we nat ns into Pelican 
Lake and collected along its wooded shores. We found a creek 
on the western side of the lake through which we were able to 
pole our rowboat nearly into Lake Okeechobee. A slight exten- 
sion of this channel, and it may exist at. times of high water, 
would add a fifth island to the group now in the lake 
After devoting as much time to Pelican Lake as our schedule 
allowed, we returned to Pelican harbor and passed outside, 
where we began our course northward along the eastern shore of 
Lake Okeechobee. Landings were made from time to time as 
inviting localities appeared along the shore. Just above Pelican 
harbor and northward from it both the land and the vegetation 
undergoes an abrupt and a conspicuous change. A ridge of fine 
white siliceous sand runs parallel with the shore of the lake. 
This ae is several feet high and varies, as far as we observed, 
from about twenty-five feet to two hundred feet in width- 
ene is ridge lies a dense cypress swamp. Along the lake- 
side the shore is open and of clean sand, and not of mud as it is a 
little further south. There the water-hyacinth and water-lettuce 
and luxuriant a few miles south cannot gain a foot- 
hold, as exist, if they are to be found at all, as stunted and 
ate plants hardly Fare after an experience about 
Pelican La Consequently the shore-line is devoid of vegeta- 
tion, sare for some ia grasses and sedges. Thus a complete 
change of scenery takes place. The low muddy and er 
shore with its dense growth of pond-apple gives place to a ridge 
clothed for the most part with a remarkable growth of bale: 
cypress oi inurl uae ond palmetto (Sabal Palmetto). 
In appeara ancient sand-dunes 
and the foe thete of several coastwise plants seems to 
indicate that it was once a sea-coast. These sand-dunes hag ee 
a very dense growth of the two above- mentioned trees. 
growth is almost sai in many places. ae with 
he cypress and palmetto are trees of the red-maple (Acer 
eae holly Glee Cassine), ash (Fraxinus caroliniana), 
