Paddling under Palmettos — page 162: what you’re looking at

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Paddling Under Palmettos. 155 column. What does it come from, do you sup- pose?” “Ah! that must be the mysterious smoke of the Everglades. No one has ever found out what it is.” “They have an idea?” ‘All sorts of theories have been advanced, one even that there is the crater of an old volcano in the verglades—a volcano that has in times past been pushed up out of the sea just above the level, and land formed around it. Learned men have even come here with the belief that they might solve the mystery attending the peculiar formation of South- ern Florida, but if they thought to find a strata of ashes and lava beds I’m afraid they were sadly dis- appointed.” “What is the true theory?” “About the formation of Florida?” ues Dick shrugged his shoulders. “Undoubtedly the little insect that formed the co- quina rock ages upon ages ago had much to do with it, as we can see now from the growth of the Keys, but beyond all question the currents of the ocean and gulf had much to do with it also.” Gomicboo ‘S (E(0) m