. A guide to Florida for tourists, sportsmen and settlers . RIdgewood A\eniie, Daytona ST. AUGUSTINE TO PALM BEACH 133 behind. Here, even in the winter days whennorthers blow, the wind scarcely dark river, which flows with such a sluggishcurrent, seems to have fallen asleep in the hushand silence between its green banks. An occa-sional bird skims along the glassy surface, a fishjumps, or a turtle falls awkwardly ofif some drift-ing log. The wave from the launch runs lappingalong the bank, but one feels that when it hassubsided the same mysterious silence will againfall upon the
. A guide to Florida for tourists, sportsmen and settlers . RIdgewood A\eniie, Daytona ST. AUGUSTINE TO PALM BEACH 133 behind. Here, even in the winter days whennorthers blow, the wind scarcely dark river, which flows with such a sluggishcurrent, seems to have fallen asleep in the hushand silence between its green banks. An occa-sional bird skims along the glassy surface, a fishjumps, or a turtle falls awkwardly ofif some drift-ing log. The wave from the launch runs lappingalong the bank, but one feels that when it hassubsided the same mysterious silence will againfall upon the Tomoka, broken only by birds sing-ing in the green treetops high up above. The variety of color in the Floridian vegeta-tion is unusual. The combination in one thickgrowth of evergreen and deciduous trees givesthe whole range of greens, every possible shadeand tint. Blue-green of palmettoes, the yellowishbrightness of tender young oak, the dark massof the parasitic mistletoe, or of the resurrec-tion ferns which clothe great gray limbs, ris-ing in a feathe
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