Beadle's Dime Novels No. 208: The Ocean Outlaw — page 7: what you’re looking at

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THE. OCEAN OUTLAW. CHAPTER L The mid-day watch was set, beneath the blaze of light, When there came a cry from the tall mast-head: “A sail! a sail in sight!” *~ And o’er the far horizon a snowy speck appeared, 3 _ And every eye was strain'd to watch the vessel as she near’d. | Anon. = Besutiful Florida! With thy orange and magnolia ” groves, with the sapphire ocean Javing thy level shoges, r and the balmy breath of the tropics sweeping from the | Gulf across thy perfumed forests, with thy romantic glens, “and canes, and harbors, the haunt of the wild buccaneer, end the refnge of the storm-driven mariner: it is of thee, rey O beautiful Jand of romance! that I would speak. is A few miles from St. Augustine, in the State of Florida, _ about the year 1825, stood a lone and beautiful cottage. «*Tfs many and convenient outbuildings; its wild and truly : Tomantic scenery, plainly indicate! that the owner was a er person of wealth and cultivated taste. The cottage oceupied the summit of a gentle eminence that sloped gradually down until its base was washed by es e ocean waves, & hundred yards from the door; while, on the other side, the declivity terminated in a wild forest dell, through which a stream of considerable magnitude mule its way over arocky bed; its course ss nm ~ ee comieBooks. cs.com . 4 4 = OY Pr ae ee ) ~-