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other Camp Longview and vicinity, situated several miles farther 
north on the edge of the Everglades 
Our field work was inaugurated by a spell of heat and rainy 
weather probably the most severe of the year. Both these con- 
ditions added greatly to our discomfort in the field, and inter- 
fered to some extent with our prearranged plans. In that region 
the heat is markedly intensified by the peculiar growth of the 
pine trees which form a generally unbroken forest; the trees 
grow in too spindling a manner to afford shade and the innumer- 
able trunks are so thickly set that they prevent the circulation of 
air in any manner suggestive of a breeze. The rain fell so con- 
tinuously and in such torrents that we were forced to reduce our 
bivouacs to from three to six hours, in order to cover the terri- 
tory selected for investigation before the intervening portions of 
the Everglades became filled with water and consequently im- 
passable. 
early start on the morning of May 6, and continuous trav- 
eling through a drenching rain during the day, enabled us to 
reach Camp Jackson, an abandoned survey camp consisting of a 
single log cabin, situated on the edge of the Everglades, about 
forty-five miles by trail southwest of Miami, before sunset. 
The eastern end of Long Key is situated three miles directly 
west of Camp Jackson. Structurally, Lon ey may be de- 
scribed as a repetition of the elevated 1 see of coral sandrock 
extending from Miami to Camp Jackson, but on a smaller scale, 
and with its long axis running directly east and west, instead of 
north and south. Like the larger reef referred to, it is oblong in 
shape and is intersected by narrow arms of the Everglades at 
right angles to the long axis and has its greatest hammock devel- 
opment at its eastern end, as the other reef has at the corre- 
sponding northern end. It is more rugged than the larger reef 
and the vegetation, especially in the case of the trees, is of a more 
stunted and ragged character. Our first attempt to reach the 
Key was rendered unsuccessful by encountering a slough * just 
* One mile below this point the slough forks a runs on either side of a hammock 
called Paradise Key which was visited in 1903 by Mr. A. A. Eaton and earlier during 
this year by Dr. Britton and Professor Rolfs. oe reaching the field it was part of 
