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[Handwritten inscription in pencil, u.r.: 1278; illegible handwritten inscription in pencil, u.l.]

-1438- / 1871.

Trees in Florida are the Live oak, water oak, cabbage
palmetto, magnolia, sweet gum, hickory, long-leaved (rough-barked)
pine, cherry, plum, bay, 3 or 4 kinds of holly, red maple, prickly
ash, cedar, cypress, mulberry, white ash, and persimmon.

Animals are deer, gray squirrel, cat squirrel, skunk,
rabbit, mole, raccoon, opossum, bear and wildcat.

Birds are doves [doves], robins, quail, wild turkey, water tur-
key, mud hen, geese, ducks, white cranes, blue herons, pelicans,
gulls and curlews.

Fish are hickory and white shad, mullet that jump out ["that jump out" inserted inscription in black ink]
of the river, gizzard shad used only for manure, saw fish, edible
sheepheads, drum, red bass, sharks, sting rays, devilfish, por-
poise, yellowtails, catfish, (big ones), salt water catfish,
snappers only in the sea, shovel-nose-shark, Jewfish, pike, needle-
fish, goggle eyes, skip Jack, silver fish very long, sailor's
choice, croakers, sea trout, garfish, toad ["ad" inserted inscription in black ink] fish (poison), white
fish (round)-spotted sides ), trout, pickerel, brim, Kavallia, her-
ring, mudfish, Jackfish, sturgeon, sucker, eel, oyster, clam, &c., [crossed out]
&c. [crossed out], needle fish found by enquiries among fisherman; alligators,
lizards, turtles and big sea turtles.
Jan. 29. St. John's bluff seems to be composed [composed] of drift! belong-
ing to the glacial period. It is brought so far that the material
is very fine; and only the hardest boulders have reached here and
they are small in size.

The oyster banks are artificial, lying at top of bluff.
As the bluff wears away they fall into the water and at certain
points are thrown back by the waves, paving the shore with shells
below the water line.