Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of (14576787730)

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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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.€S \-~ BAR LIGHT-HOUSE, MOUTH OF ST JOHNS RIVER. ST. JOHNS AND OCKLAWAHA RIVERS, FLORIDA. 21 mouth of the Ocklawaha River, looking scarcely wide enough to admit a skiff, much lessa steamboat As daylight increased, we found that we were passing through a densecypress-swamp, and that the channel selected had no banks, but was indicated by blazed marks on the trunks of the towering trees. There was plenty of water, how-ever, to float our craft, but it was a queer kind of navigation, for the hull of the steamerwent bumping against one cypress-butt, then another, suggesting to the tyro in this kindof aquatic adventure that possibly he might be wrecked, and subjected, even if he escaped
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Green Cove Springs. a watery grave, to a miserable death, through the agency of mosquitoes, buzzards, andhuge alligators. As we wound along through the dense vegetation, a picture of novel interest pre-sented itself at every turn. We came occasionally to a spot a little elevated above thedead-water level, covered with a rank growth of lofty palmetto, the very opposite, in everyrespect, to those stunted, storm-blown specimens which greeted us at the mouth of theSt, Johns River. Here they shot up tall and slender, bearing aloft innumerable parasites. 22 PICTURESQUE AMERICA.