"The made out of them, many of the crabs have lead eyes. I saw more of the large geos resoluta. This pine land is almost devoid of soil and after the forest is cleaned the larger pieces of the solite are taken to the sides of the field and stone walls are made of them. For orchards this ground does well enough but garden tending in it is rather dark work and I saw such farmers tilling only by races. The pine land is slightly undulatory and a few miles in width after the higher lands drop away rather quickly into the Everglades. The difference did not seem to me more than 5 feet. All is then low green with islands of pine. The Miami solite is a very soft rock and freely quarried is easily crushed. For this reason it would not be hard to make a soil and is used everywhere to make the roads. Under the road roller and the warm rains makes a smooth white slurry in the sun and that soon develops short chippy holes that are known easily repaired. The Miami solite even today is considerably eroded tended and in places is very decidedly so but I