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2 with all their flowers are not more beautiful. - I must see more of it I was scare able to leave Cedar Keys had five or
six light attacks of fever in Havana I arrived there about the middle of January. Yesterday I sent you the plants which I
collected there, by Adams Ex. Co please give them to Sarah to keep with the others tell her that if she opens them to be very
careful not to mix the note-billets, Not a shadow of winter is seen in Cuba, I culd wander about among the hills touching
a flower at every step in some places I could gather about a million in my arms at once, delightfully fragrant, in all the
pomp glory of full bloom, The cocoa palm is magnif- icent plant with leaves 8 or 12 feet long with 5 or 600 leaflets - but
enough I suppose of the confounded weeds as you call them 3 The winter which I was in Havana was intolerably hot equal
to the sultriest days of our hottest summers. I did not like Havana - it is full of noise confused bustle - a perfect babel
of commerce - all quiet is effectually fenced out with common, brass bands, bells, bullfights, feast days, ever lasting unnameable
fandango - Havana has no Sunday - the commercial pulse is ever beating, bull fighting is the most zeal- ously abserved of
all Sabbath exercises, It is not surprising that Spaniards are cruel, that their religion morality are constantly in the market.
The narrow slits through the yellow pillared buildings, I sup- pose are intended for streets, they are paved with small limestone
blocks set so as to ensure the greatest amount