Field Notebook: Florida. 1911, 1912
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into the sea water considerable, or that from land appears to turn by the water. This is a dense jungle and thins elsewhere and then grow large larger trees. In among these mangroves crayfish of jigger size may be seen and some higher considerably than any tide line. They are as large here than at Key Haven. There has been dug a channel through the spit so that the fishermen of Miami may go directly to the fishing banks, and not the long useless trip around Cape Florida. Both shores are lined with coast swell breaks for 50m the north as it is a grass. On these rocks some seen tamarack, patelot spiderfords and thorn with an epiced withronal ferny, and 2 species of dark leopard marked coiled ferns. As stated but 1/2 days on the head did not learn as much as dwell at an other time. Met one of the young construction engineers of the F. E. C. Railway at the San Carlos Hotel by the name of R. B. Jseley (Permanent Addams