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After this our attention was directed southward and we began 
exploration by a tramp over the Everglades, selecting a line 
several miles in from the shore of Bay Biscayne, for eleven miles 
below Cutler, thence west six miles to the settlement of Homestead. 
This move did not yield prolific results, but it gave us an intimate 
knowledge of some territory we had not before visited. From 
Homestead we walked to Big hammock prairie, which is a short 
id scrub.” The saw 
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er is in the lower right hand corner. The broom-like plant in the fore 
ground is Ceratiola ericoides. Back of the latter are scrub oaks, and the back. 
a is occupied by trees of the sand pine 
distance from Camp Jackson, thence down the prairie to the 
Everglades and through new territory including both pineland 
and front prairie back to Homestead. Recovering from this 
excursion we retraced our steps southwestward to Camp Jackson, 
whence we explored new territory to the south, the west and the 
north. To the southward domelike elevations seeming to rise 
high above the level prairie attracted our attention. Upon 
