HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. IOI 
For the country between New River and St. Lucie River, and, in 
fact, including the Biscayne Bay country, there is no better guide than 
John Davis, who has lived almost his entire life in the woods, and is 
THE MIAMI RIVER RAPIDS. 
one of the few real hunters and trappers who could be called a thor- 
ough woodsman. Where the county road crosses the Hillsboro 
River, the only settler in that vicinity, by name William Thornton, is 
