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gration of enterprising and industrious people, in sufficient, 
numbers so as to exercise a controlling influence, would ina 
few years effect a great change for the better, and place the 
State in the line of progress. The average Floridian of 
to-day understands only one thing, and that is “how not to 
doit." Emigration should be by colonies, and should in- 
clude some mechanics, and be well provided with all neces- 
sary agrieultural and mechanical implements and material, 
iu order to be successful, and great care should be exercised 
in the selection of a location. 
The trip to Florida, of which these “Rambles” afford a 
mere outline, was not devoid of scientific interest, and the 
results will be made known at some future time, either in 
the NATURALIST or some other appropriate publication. . 

THE NATURALIST IN CALIFORNIA. 
BY J. G. COOPER, M. D. 
NO. II. 
The Colorado Valley in winter.—I arrived at Fort Mo- 
jave, after a journey of sixteen days from Los Angeles,* 
on December 19th, 1860. This post is situated close to 
latitude 359, where the boundary line of California strikes 
the river, and although on the Arizonian side, has, probably, 
uo species of animals not also living on the west bank of 
the river, unless Lepus callotis be an exception. This, ae 
Texan hare, I found common there, while ZL. Californicus 
is the prevalent, if not the only large species westware- 
The valley of the Colorado at this post is, probably , ten 
. miles in width, and formed of a succession of gravelly isi 
races, or mésas, with a narrow sandy bottom intervening 


/-. . *Not Angelos, as printed before. Spanish, not Italian. 

