Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 252
rness of reeds and slime, a favoriteresort of the marsh-hen. The vegetation, as mightbe supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish. No treesof any magnitude are to be seen. Near the westernextremity, where Fort Moultrie stands, and whereare some miserable frame buildings, tenanted, dur-ing summer, by… … The Gold-Bug 233 and fever, may be found, indeed, the bristly pal-metto; but the whole island, with the exception ofthis western point, and a line of hard, white beach onthe seacoast, is covered with a dense undergrowthof sweet myrtle, so much prized by the horticul-turists of England. The shrub…
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