covered by the remains of the once glorious pine forest. Today even the gray haze can vanish, through the Turbentine and Naval industry. I don't if the land is so full above the sea. Every man and there are marsh conditions and more constantly over it is a open cotta filled with saw grass. The rivers (Mr Everett) are not depressed over just below the general level of the adjacent land and are thick and mud of a yellow color. In the higher parts of the swamp one can see the pine growing beside small cypress trees, in other woods the upland pines beside [illegible] palms - like palms on the swamp flora. The palmetto is more abundant and well developed in the swamp banks but above occur in the standing cotta. In the small isolated swamp areas of 25 to 100 foot corns in the pine forests one sees such areas now very taken up by the young cypress growing along there. This is close to Everett. So one constantly sees how the upland flora adjacent to the swamp flora. Here also the palmetto are large and more developed, some 10 to 12 feet tall and numerous. Beside them just south of Everett I saw the first tree palms about 20-35 feet tall with their leafy tips. The trunk is almost