1882(2) Florida This
Notes on matters to tell about
Florida, my mother and father's visit there to St.
Augustine in 1850's; my father and my brother in the
late 60's a with Henry Bowditch a companion; our own
visit in the early 1880's, to St. Augustine when the
reflroad went no further.
The trip up the
river to the great spring in which it rose, clear to
the deep bottomsand the torch lighted trip up at night
with dark forests on either side.
The St. John's
River with its orange plantations.
The old book
of the naturalist
which
Mr. Caldwalder of Philadelphia lent me in first edition
when I was staying with Mrs. Coles in Philadelphia;
and the trip across the southern Appalachians whic
when only Indians inhabited them contained in the same
volume.
Canoeing in New England waters.