. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . THE EDGE OF THE EVERGLADES. next vear be extended to Biscayne Bay. At present a stage ridefrom Lantana to Lemon City, Biscayne Bay, occupies nearly twodays. When the railroad is finished the trip may be made in twohours. These improvements, which will make the country so veryeasy of access, will have a decided influence on the hunting andfishing. New River (New-la-pee) flows east and enters into New River HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. 97 Sound, which, in turn, opens into the ocean five miles farth
. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . THE EDGE OF THE EVERGLADES. next vear be extended to Biscayne Bay. At present a stage ridefrom Lantana to Lemon City, Biscayne Bay, occupies nearly twodays. When the railroad is finished the trip may be made in twohours. These improvements, which will make the country so veryeasy of access, will have a decided influence on the hunting andfishing. New River (New-la-pee) flows east and enters into New River HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. 97 Sound, which, in turn, opens into the ocean five miles farther to thesouth. New River is very deep in places and is one of the bestlocalities on the coast for manatee. It is the favorite hunting-ground of the Indians wiien they desire to kill one of those ani-. JOH\ DAVIS. mals. Several of the Indians have permanent camps on NewRiver. Tom Tiger, Robert Osceola, Jumper, Old Tom, OldCharlie, and Tom-a-luske all have camps there. In the upper 98 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. north fork of the river fine bass fishing may be had, and there areusually a few ducks about, but there is very little else in the w^ayof game, deer and turkey being scarce in that vicinity. Continuing south from New River, again following the countyroad, a drive of thirteen or fourteen miles takes one to SnakeCreek (Car-chee-pap-kee) ; thencomes Arch Creek (Char-to-fee-na),
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