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Wednesday Dec 20 - 1911.
Left Jacksonville for Miami at 9.30 A.M.
Raining hard as I left and will rain all day.
The country all the morning is again as flat
as a table and the front is of pines. Saw a little
of lakes except near St Augustine. The ground
of these pine lands is a white loose sand and
there is no humus layer. The landscape is
monstrous and never is it broken by farm lands.
What one sees most often is a turpentine-nosum
still with a half dozen negro shacks of the
smallest kind. One hardly sees here the promise
of a pink future Florida.
In the pine lands, the front floor is more a
low covey with stunted palmettos. At 85 miles
south of Jacksonville one sees a few farms
in the small marsh beside the rail-road track.
There also butter-cups are in blossom. Occasionally
one sees dry and low swells that date to be
flattened sand dunes. at Ommel
As one gets farther south, and near the shore
one sees gentle rises inland as if of sea terraces.
Of course there are no cliffs. On these grow the