What to see in America . ext slender coast lagoon is Lake Worth, twenty-twomiles long, and on the peninsula that lies eastward is theworld-famed Palm Beach, the millionaires is the largest hotel for tourists in existence, six storieshigh, and nearly a fifth of a mile long, with accommodationsfor two thousand people. Palm Beach is a gem in a jungle,for wilderness merging into the Everglades begins to thewestward almost with the lake shore. The chief place farther south is the INIagic City, Miami,which consisted only of a store and several houses in one of the beaches abo
What to see in America . ext slender coast lagoon is Lake Worth, twenty-twomiles long, and on the peninsula that lies eastward is theworld-famed Palm Beach, the millionaires is the largest hotel for tourists in existence, six storieshigh, and nearly a fifth of a mile long, with accommodationsfor two thousand people. Palm Beach is a gem in a jungle,for wilderness merging into the Everglades begins to thewestward almost with the lake shore. The chief place farther south is the INIagic City, Miami,which consisted only of a store and several houses in one of the beaches about a dozen miles down the coast isa bed 6f singing sand that emits a musical sound underfoot. From the southern end of Florida a line of islands ex-tends in a gentle curve for two hundred miles to Key Westand beyond. Theseislands, or keys asthey are called, areof coral. Fully fiftyof them are inhabitedand productive. Thelargest is thirty mileslong. The journeyfrom Miami to KeyWest is by the worlds A Sponge Boat, Key West. 198 Whsi to See in America first sea-going railwaj^ one hundred and fifty miles long,which cost upward of S100,000 a mile. Fully half the trackis over the water. One viaduct is seven miles long. Thefirst through train reached Key West in January, 1912, andwent on by the huge car ferry that conveys trains direct tothe Cuban capital, ninety miles distant. Key West is eighthundred and fifty miles nearer the equator than Los Angeles,and one hundred miles nearer the equator than the south-ernmost part of Texas. The city is on a small island of thesame name, commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, and has beencalled Americas Gi-braltar. The words KeyWest are a crude Englishpronunciation of theSpanish name for the is-land — Cayo Hueso. Thisname means Bone to tradition,the native tribes inhabit-ing the keys were grad-ually driven from oneisland to another by amore powerful mainlandtribe until they werenearly exterminated in afinal battle on K
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