Palmetto-Leaves

Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.
Page 266: Ocklawaha should possibly be Okalewaha
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, (LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.) 1873.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, By JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Boston: Stereotyped and Printed by Rand, Avery, & Co.
MAP OF THE ST. JOHN RIVER, FLORIDA.

ES, here he comes again! Look at him! Whose dog is he? We are sitting around the little deck-house of the Savannah steamer, in that languid state of endurance which befalls voyagers, when, though the sky is clear, and the heavens blue, and the sea calm as a looking-glass, there is yet that gentle, treacherous, sliding rise and fall, denominated a ground-swell.
Reader, do you remember it? Of all deceitful demons of the deep, this same smooth, slippery, cheating ground-swell is the most diabolic. Because, you see, he is a mean imp, an underhanded, unfair, swindling scamp, who takes from you all the glory of endurance. Fair to the eye, plausible as possible, he says to you, What's the matter? What can you ask brighter than this sky, smoother than this sea, more glossy and calm than these rippling waves? How fortunate that you have such an exceptionally smooth voyage!