Excerpt from Scribner's Monthly, Vol. 9: An Illustrated Magazine for the People; November, 1874 When we reached Jacksonville the frost had vanished, and two days there after the genial December sun bade the thermometer testify to 80 degrees in the shade. Here and there we saw a tall banana, Whose leaves had been yellowed by the frost's breath; but the oranges were unscathed, and the F lor idians content. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.