Part 1

BISCAYNE BAY,

DADE CO., FLORIDA,

Between the 25th and 26th Degrees of Latitude.

A COMPLETE

MANUAL

OF

INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCTS, ETC., OF THE LANDS BORDERING ON BISCAYNE BAY, IN FLORIDA.

ALBANY: WEED, PARSONS AND COMPANY. 1876.

INTRODUCTION.

The information contained in the following pages has been carefully collected almost entirely by Mrs. JAMES E. WALKER, of Albany, N. Y. The facts stated are but a small portion of the large amount of material in her possession. The compiler has endeavored to give due credit to all by name whose statements are given, so that none may suppose he has either drawn upon the resources of his imagination or appropriated the ideas and language of others as his own.

HENRY E. PERRINE. _June_, 1876.