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reaching them we were surprised to find them to be willow-fringed 
hammocks of bald cypress trees with immense trees at the center, 
the trees at or near the center and forming the top of the dome 
often being exceptionally large. In one hammock we encountered 
perhaps the largest bald cypress ever observed. It measured 
over eleven feet in diameter near the base, and the spreading 
branches were as large as ordinary cypress trees themselves. 
A forest fire on the Everglade Keys. This fire swept the keys below 
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again; and all the pleats that grew there before seem to reappear. The pitc 
of the Caribbean p readily, consequently the trees are not, as a 
rule, much Geqiaved by these forest fires. 
The water was still high in the Everglades and we were not 
able to get as far west as we had anticipated. Selecting a 
circuitous route, in order to increase our collecting area, we began 
our tramp back to Homestead. The course followed was a line 
five or six miles northward from Camp Jackson through the 
