. 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 . ST. JOHNS AND OCKLAWAHA RIVERS, FLORIDA. 27 Another run of a half-mile brings us into the cypress again, the firelight givingnew ideas of the picturesque. The tall shafts, more than ever shrouded in the hangingmoss, looked as if they had been draped in sad habiliments, while the wind sighedthrough the limbs; and when the sonorous sounds of the alligators were heard, groaningand com
. 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 . ST. JOHNS AND OCKLAWAHA RIVERS, FLORIDA. 27 Another run of a half-mile brings us into the cypress again, the firelight givingnew ideas of the picturesque. The tall shafts, more than ever shrouded in the hangingmoss, looked as if they had been draped in sad habiliments, while the wind sighedthrough the limbs; and when the sonorous sounds of the alligators were heard, groaningand complaining, the sad, dismal picture of desolation was complete. A sharp contact with a palmetto - knee throws around the head of our nondescriptsteamer, and we enter what appears to be an endless colonnade of beautifully - propor-tioned shafts, running upward a hundred feet, roofed by pendent ornaments, suggestingthe highest possible effect of Gothic architecture. The delusion was increased by the. A Slight Obstruction in the Ocklawaha. waving streamers of the Spanish moss, which here and there, in great festoons of fiftyfeet in length, hung down like tattered but gigantic banners, worm-eaten and mouldy,sad ^evidences of the hopes and passions of the distant past. So absorbing were thesewonderful effects of a brilliant light upon the vegetable productions of these Floridaswamps, that we had forgotten to look for the cause of this artificial glare, but, whenwe did, we found a faithful negro had suspended from cranes two iron cages, one oneach side of the boat, into which he constantly placed unctuous pine-knots, that blazedand crackled, and turned what would otherwise have been unmeaning darkness into themost novel and exciting views of Nature that ever met our experienced eyes. 28 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. The morning came, and the theatrical display of the swamp by torchlight ended,when we were destined to. be introduced to a new feature of this singular huge water-oak,
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