CHAPTER XI 

 Alon^ the Stream 



ALL the streams of Lower Florida are mere 

 drains of the Everglades and the rather 

 narrow region of cypress swamps. I 

 doubt if any of them are over fifteen 

 miles long and like everything else in this area 

 they had their birth only yesterday. 



The southwestern shore of the State is less 

 elevated than the southeastern and the slope of 

 two thirds of the lower part of Florida is toward 

 the Gulf of Mexico. When Willoughby crossed 

 the Everglades he entered them from Harney 

 River and at his Camp Number 6, about due west 

 of Miami and twenty miles from the east coast, he 

 found the water of the Glades still moving to the 

 southwest. The streams which enter the Gulf of 

 Mexico within our region have no real valleys and 

 even on the east coast, where they break through 

 the great rocky ridge, their depressions are feebly 



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