On the Gulf Thursday July 2. As we were anchored all night in front of St. Johns River, the river moved by Jim Hill to get Salmon in, had a quiet nights rest. But as usual in a steamer at 7.30 and had breakfast at 8. We are now going by Shell creek. The shore here is of crystalline rock, two forty nowhere higher than 100 feet but north in the distance are as else- where the higher parts of the Laurentians. At 9 A.M. we are at Little River a settlement with about 20 houses and no church. As we forced along all the morning there is no more like seen of the flat prairie. The country to the north or myself are high but not high. What has become of the Ordovician plain see farther east.