A Thousand-Muile Walk 
showy in size and color as those of the sweet 
peas of gardens. The seeds are large and satiny. 
The whole plant is noble in its motions and 
features, covering the ground with a depth of 
unconfused leafage which I have never seen 
equaled by any other plant. The extent of leaf- 
surface is greater, I think, than that of a large 
Kentucky oak. It grows, as far as my obser- 
vation has reached, only upon shores, in a soil 
composed of broken shells and corals, and ex- 
tends exactly to the water-line of the highest- 
reaching waves. The same plant is abundant 
in Florida. 
The cacti form an important part of the plant 
population of my ramble ground. They are 
various as the vines, consisting now of a dimin- 
utive joint or two hid in the weeds, now rising 
into bushy trees, wide-topped, with trunks a 
foot in diameter, and with glossy, dark-green 
joints that reflect light like the silex-varnished 
palms. They are planted for fences, together 
with the Spanish bayonet and agave. 
In one of my first walks I was laboriously 
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