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Titusville the hammocks change perceptably and the live-oak and 
magnolia are the conspicuous trees. There, too, we found 
large shell-mounds, doubtless built by the aborigines, bordering 
the lagoons instead of sand-dunes. 
Considering our course geologically, from Miami to Delray 
we had passed over the Miami odlite or the odlite covered with 
sand. From Delray to the estuary of the Saint Lucie River we 
traversed the Palm Beach limestone, mainly covered with sand; 
while thence to Daytona we traveled over the Pleistocene and 
recent geological formations. 
After dark we entered historical country. As it happened our 
experiences in that region fell almost on the one hundredth 
anniversary of those of William Baldwin,! who describes his 
travels in a series of letters to William Darlington? in 1817. 
Speaking of New Smyrna, which town we passed through after 
sundown, he records a meeting with an ancient Minorcan, ‘‘one 
of those, who, more than half a century ago, were enticed from 
their native land, by the famous Dr. Turnbull,3—and experienced 
1 William Baldwin (1779-1819), a medical graduate of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania and a surgeon in the United States navy, was an enthusiastic student of the 
flora of the pee states. In 1805-06 he visited China, and in 1817-18, South 
America, but more > than _ of the last decade of his short life was spent in Georgia 
and neighboring states.— N HENDLEY BARNHA 
2 Wiliam oie ine 2~1863) was a jamous citizen of West Chester, Pennsyl- 
vania; physician, bank president, member of Congress, and enthusiastic student ot 
the flora of Chester County. It is to him that we owe the preservation, in book 
form, of the — relics of John Bartram, of Humphry Marshall, and of Baldwin. 
OHN y BARNHART. 
ee are aen a Scotchman of considerable means, was the local 
matriager, ae one of the promoters, of the first land improvement scheme in Florida. 
He brought about 1300 settlers from the shores and islands of the Mediterranean to 
a tract of land granted by the British government; some were from Smyrna, and 
wed sade was named New Smyrna; others were from Minorca, and the name 
** Minorcans” was applied to all of them by their neighbors. Many miles of roads 
were constructed in the wilderness, and the cultivation of indigo and sugar-cane 
undertaken on a large scale. This wasin 1767. Itis said that more than $150,000 
Was spent in this venture. The colonists were brought over under indentures 
which practically made them slaves for a term of years, and they claimed that they 
were cruelly treated by their overseers in Turnbull's absence; their indentures were 
finally canceled by the courts, the settlement at New Smyrna was abandoned in 
1776, and the pales 600 ** Minorcans” were allotted home-sites at St. Augus- 
tine, north of the fort. Turnbull went to Charleston, and adhered to the cause 
the Sores ca the Revolution; in consequence of this, his New Smyrna 
grant was onfiscated.—JoHN HENDLEY BARNHART, 
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