Field Notebook: Florida. 1911, 1912
Page 48
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The border between Crete and Cyprus is made of palms palm land...it is gradually this lower level that drains the palm lands and holds the water in the Ever- glade. When one gets to inspect the flora, one is that Reg Layo and the rest of the Lago. take on a new appearance. The mangroves anome limited to the quiet sea margins and the salt marshes. All the higher land is occupied by a more or less rank jungle growth of shrubs and innumerable vines among which the morning glow is conspicuous. (according to Agonizato 1740) Reg Layo is distinctly higher than the Crete and one soon begins to see the elevated outcrops replete with large heads of ceras (up to 2 feet across). The railroad has quarries made of this for road bed. From about Central Luffy, the railroad has used great quantities of small dredged up from the shallow areas around the lago. It is a light grayish sticky mud that runs widely when dumped from the tank-like iron cars. But when once hardened will probably stand well. As it works under the air one sees great quantities of shells and smaller fossils (have