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miles south of Miami, a very good road extending to the hamlet 
of Cutler, about fifteen miles, but the twenty-five miles beyond 
is a road only in name, a mere trail made by wagons over the 
roughest kind of rough coral rock, broken by teams of the sur- 
veyors, causing us to do more walking than riding and requiring 
constant attention to hoofs; indeed, the loss of a horse’s shoe, 
not immediately noticed, nearly defeated the expedition at one 
Fic. 19. Roots of Mangrove i Mangle), shore of Biscayne Bay, Miami, 
lorida, 
point. Specimens were taken all along this road both going 
and coming and short trips made to both sides of it. he o 
tals ae Paradise Key, known also as ‘‘ Royal Palm Ham- 
s reached by a four-mile walk across the everglades 
on Gan Jackson, a surveyors’ hut, the end of possible trans- 
portation by wagon; a survey line running toward Cape Sable, 
rendered walking relatively easy, however, and at this time the 
water-level of the everglades was some two or three feet below 
