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AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Vol. III.—AUGUST, 1869.—No. 6. 
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RAMBLES IN FLORIDA. 
BY R. EK. C. STEARNS. 

Forma, the “Land of Flowers," the enchanted ground 
Wherein it has been said Ponce de Leon sought for the 
“fountain of perpetual youth,” is not far away; the fountain, 
quite likely, is as remote as ever, but the land which it was 
said to bless with its everflowing and rejuvenating waters, 
can be reached after a journey of a few days from New 
York, by steamship if the traveller is not unpleasantly 
E ected by a sea-voyage, or, if the apprehension of "rough 
. Weather off Hatteras” should make a different route prefer- 
able, then by rail to Charleston, thence by steamer over 
waters generally smooth to Fernandina, stopping on the way 
at Savannah just long enough to look about and obtain a 
. Beneral idea of the place. 
_ Fernandina, situated on Amelia Island, is the principal 
town upon the east coast of Florida, and of-importance, 
‘ing the eastern terminus of a line of railway which con- 
Dects the Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico. Its pop- 
ulation is not far from fifteen hundred. At first sight it is 
Prepossessing, but a walk about the place reveals many 
buildings of pleasing architecture hidden among the trees. 




















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