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nine years of slavery at New Smyrna.” In a later letter regard- 
ing the old settlement Baldwin says: ‘‘The fertility of the soil, 
the beauty of the situation, and the extent of former improve- 
ments, far exceeded my expectation. The houses were all 
neatly built with those fine materials peculiar to the country; 
but naked walls and chimneys alone remain to mark the spot 
where New Smyrna stood. So luxuriant has been the vegetation, 
that it was difficult getting along, without cutting our way. 
Where the car of Turnbull once drove in triumph, we find cabbage 
trees fifteen feet in height.” 
On the morning of the second day we left Daytona and started 
for the middle of the peninsula, taking a southwesterly course 
towards De Land. We were soon on an entirely different 
geological formation, the Pliocene deposits. Most of the 
country was covered with a growth of pine trees, not by one 
species, however, but by at least three. In the flat woods the 
yellow pine (Pinus palustris) occurred, while on the sand-hills 
the sand pine (Pinus clausa) grew abundantly. In the lower 
and wet regions the black pine (Pinus serotina) was the conifer 
represented. The pools in many places were vellow with the 
flowers of several bladderworts, both small and large. In low 
hammocks rose bushes with stems and branches more than fifteen 
feet long clambered up into the shrubs and trees. There, too, 
the loblolly-bay (Gordonia Lasianthus), a relative of the tea plant, 
was conspicuous by its large white flowers. The wet banks were 
carpeted with violets (Viola), white and blue, and with the 
partridge-berry (\fitchella repens). 
In and about many towns Drummond's phlox (Phlex Drum- 
mondii) had taken possession of the roadsides and waste places, 
particularly about De Land, where we passed into the lake 
region. It was just west of this town that we came to the Saint 
John’s River. 
Here the river swamp was a veritable flower garden, both as 
regards aquatics and terrestrials. The pools in the swamp 
were filled with a water milfoil (Wyriophyllum proserpinacoides), 
an aquatic naturalized from Chile. The ground was carpeted, 
often densely so, with a beautiful, fragrant, depressed labiate 
