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day; having generally an excellent provision uf 
beef, biscuits, rice, fish and some genuine whisky. 
Arriving from the eastern and middle districts, 
they annually visit the Floridas. During summer 
they return to their families, but at the approach 
of winter again set forth for their toils, from the 
first of December to the beginning of March, 
‘being the season for cutting. Sometimes strange 
misadventures befall them on these journeyings, 
when fogs so dense are accustomed to overspread 
the country, as to make it impossible to see 
further than thirty or forty yards onwards. In 
the monotony. of woods, moreover, where the 
trees present exact resemblances to each other, 
and the grass is so tall that a man of ordinary 
stature cannot see over it, so difficult is it to 
follow even a well known-track, that the most 
practised woodsman is not unfrequently bewil- 
dered. A Live Oaker of Hast Florida, employed 
on St. John’s River, left one day his cabin on 
the banks of that stream, to proceed to the 
swamps where he was accustomed to labour. 
After travelling some hours, he felt convinced 
he must have passed the spot proposed. 
On the dispersion of the fog, he beheld with as 
tonishment the sun at meridian height, and dis: 
mayed, found himself unable to recognize a sin- 
gle object around. Resolved then to pursue a 
different course, he turned his back to the sun. 
