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Published by the Wisconsin Audubon Society at Appleton, Wisconsin 
Entered as second class matter, May 16. 1904. at Appleton, Wk,. under the act of Congress of Mar, H 79. 
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MOSQUITO INLET RESERVATION 
rhe'pwriter, first came to the east coast One Or two stores and a very crude 
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of Florida in January 1886, twenty-three 
yyars^igo. The coast country south of 
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Completion of Setting the First Sign, Mosquito Inlet, Florida, Dec. 7th, 1908. 
St. Augustine was at that time very 
thinly settled and mostly in a state of 
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wildnesS. The nearest railway ran from 
I Jacksonville to Tampa on the west and 
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reach in g the e a s t • > (' ? 
coast country was ‘by 
wagon, a hard jour¬ 
ney through pine 
woods and more or 
1 ess swampy \ 1 oca 1 i- 
ties. The month of 
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January had been 
, cold and at the time 
of my arrival at Port 
Orange, ( a small ham¬ 
let one hundred and 
fifteen miles from 
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Jacksonville, 
hotel,) a Norther was howling on its 
customary three days’ schedule, during 
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which time the wind 
never seemed to 
slacken foran instant. 
Mosquito Inlet, five 
miles to the South¬ 
ward, possessed three 
or four houses, and a 
big, lonely lighthouse 
175 feet in height. 
The water birds in 
this vieinity were very 
numerous, and large 
numbers of pelicans 
stood about on the 
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different sandbars in 
that locality, sometimes numbering as 
high as five hundred. Oftentimes with 
the pelicans were immense numbers of 
gulls and terns and they always ap- 
W i t h Sign at Little Pelican Island The dark bushes contain nests of the Blue Heron. 
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