Monday Dec. 25 Miami. Was to leave at 7 this morning for Knights Key but at six the hotel people told me the train was 4 1/2 hours late. The days are now are perfect but warm. It is 76° in the shade at 9 A.M. but as the air is free of moisture it feels hotter. The dens are near here and at 8 A.M. the drums after sunrise the gram is still orch. From a little south I Detroit one passes through nothing but Everglades, first then further south I greens grass antelope dwarf mangroves, and islands of large shrubs. No pine here any but hard an oddly developed palm. At the station the water from all the Keys stations is perhaps fresh in city and good as a drink there. Everglades I found a picture trying C.E. The Miami state occurs here and nearly to sawfish. The beach goes for many miles through the coco- mangrove has the periphery and glades and before we got to Knight the land is under the influence of the sea. In me now sees long irregular leads of sea growth. As one sees Florida gradually fading into the sea. Whenever the hard sand is struck it appears to me to be the Miami orlite at least down to Everglade In I could see no change from the car window. The Everglades land lies distinctly lower (due in south Florida about 2-3 feet) than the