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Coast Railway, to Marathon, which -is situated at the western 
extremity of Key Vaca. There we met Mr. W. J. Krome, 
engineer of construction of the Key West Extension, who gener- 
ously advised us about the keys we intended to visit and kindly 
placed the facilities of his construction camps at our service. 
Fic. 29. Interior of Big Pine Key. The intimate mixture of page Pines. 
y be here is but one kind of pine, but several kinds of pi A 
sierra specimen of the ee palm stands in the center of the picture. A 
ahamian shrub new to the flora of the United States may be seen in the lower 
left hand corner. 
We secured a fishing boat, and crossing the Bahia Honda channel 
Harbor) and Little Pine. We carried out our plans perfectly, 
with the exception of a visit to No Name Key. The loss of our 
rudder early in the morning of the last day interfered so with 
our movements that the examination of No Name Key had to be 
deferred until a future time. These kevs, with the exception of 
